Dd is 13 and wants to fly alone to France to join a friend's family. I don't want her to have to go through the X-ray security scanners because I don't think she should have a dose of radiation when it's not medically necessary or in the interests of her health in any way.
We've been looking at airports outside of London which don't have the scanners. Or we could drive her over.
How does this scanning work? As I understand it, not all passengers are scanned, but if they call you for scanning and you refuse, you are grounded, ie you can't fly and you lose your ticket money. If necessary, we could take that risk; but dd would have to have the guts to say, no, I'm not doing it, and we would then drive her over.
What do other people do, please?
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X-ray scanners at airports: how can I avoid dd getting an unnecessary dose of radiation?
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intermittentrain · 27/07/2011 13:56
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