Salon.com > X-Ray http://www.salon.com Fri, 24 May 2013 01:55:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 X-ray body scanners removed from major airports http://www.salon.com/2012/10/19/x_ray_body_scanners_removed_from_major_airports/ http://www.salon.com/2012/10/19/x_ray_body_scanners_removed_from_major_airports/#comments Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:05:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13046136 The Transportation Security Administration has been quietly removing its X-ray body scanners from major airports over the last few weeks and replacing them with machines that radiation experts believe are safer.

The TSA says it made the decision not because of safety concerns but to speed up checkpoints at busier airports. It means, though, that far fewer passengers will be exposed to radiation because the X-ray scanners are being moved to smaller airports.

The backscatters, as the X-ray scanners are known, were swapped out at Boston Logan International Airport in early October. Similar replacements have occurred at Los Angeles International Airport, Chicago O'Hare, Orlando and John F. Kennedy in New York, the TSA confirmed Thursday.

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