Airport body scanners/ radiation

[Weathergood92]

Does anyone know a lot about these with regard to radiation?
Re work, I fly a return flight almost every day.
From google, it seems to say the radiation is not to worry about, but just because I fly every day nearly, was wondering if anyone here is an expert/ knows a lot about the radiation and body scanners.
Thanks

If you are concerned about radiation produced by body scanners the newest kit produces very little.

https://www.epa.gov/radtown/radiation-and-airport-security-scanning

Don't forget short haul crew and certainly airside workers can end up going through scanners multiple times a day....

If you are concerned about the radiation you receive in flight, well you're exposed to higher dose rates than at sea level, true, but on short haul sectors, especially around europe it's still at a relatively insignificant level and again for context don't forget many short haul crew fly four sectors every working day, maybe more.

In flight exposure is potentially more of an issue on long haul high latitude routes.

As a result there is a requirement in europe at least for crewmembers' cumulative doses to monitored (usually done by calculation) and rosters adjusted to reduce potential exposure if an action level is being approaches but certainly in my time flying it was almost unheard of for that to be needed.

That information is really helpful- thank you🙏

@notimagain- do the scanners definitely not use the same radiation as getting X-rays? Thanks

My understanding (and my hands on knowledge is dated, so very much open to correction on all that follows) is that when full body scanners were introduced it was very much a mix of technologies,.some used very low energy X-rays (they hardly penetrated the skin) and some used radio waves. The move in recent years in many countries is to use (millimetric or mm) radio wave scanners only, not the X-ray ones.

BTW I wasn"t clear in my first post but the initial scan that everyone goes through, walking through the archway detector, involves zero radiation, and unless things have changed since my time working at airports I think you'd be very unlucky to be selected to be full body scanned everytime through security.

I maybe should also mention that if body scanners really bother you it certainly used to be the case at UK airports that you could ask for a manual search instead but I gather that can be a right faff.

That option may still exist but it's not one available worldwide...I know for a while that when leaving Australia if you were nominated for a body scan and declined you simply couldn't proceed airside...

https://www.eetimes.eu/london-heathrow-airport-to-deploy-mmwave-passenger-security-scanners/