Opting out of Airport Full Body Scanners radiation

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El_Tigre
El_Tigre Member Posts: 520
edited February 2017 in Share Your Experiences Of Life After A Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Hi,

I travel once or twice a year and this year it will be more. I never thought about the radiation a full body scanner emits. Can we as cancer survivors request to bypass the full body scanners?

I've read that the policy changed and they can still require you to go through the full body scanner if they deem you a risk. I also read how they can treat you horribly if you ask to opt out of the full body scanner. Has any one done this? If so how was your experience? I fly out of Portland, OR and they have full body scanners but they also have the older metal detectors.

The bad treatment:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christopher-elliott/...

Policy chaned Jan/2016

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tsa-changes-...

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  • cliff
    cliff Member Posts: 290
    edited February 2017

    I was told to not go to airports after a bunch of my scans, sets off the radiation detectors. junk yards too, it seems they also have govt mandated radiation detectors.

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  • ChiSandy
    ChiSandy Member Posts: 12,133
    edited February 2017

    You can always request full wanding & pat-down—which you may get anyway if either the magnetometer or rotary scanner picks up any metal implant (internal bone fixators, hip or knee prostheses, sometimes even orthodontic braces) and even the hooks & underwires in my bra. I always let them know in advance I have artificial knees and titanium hardware in one leg; sometimes they say the rotary scanner is calibrated to ignore it, sometimes they take me aside and do the wanding & pat-down, sometimes they still make me walk through the magnetometer first anyway. This even with TSA Pre-Check…which almost always still gets me a shorter wait in line. If the rotary scanners emitted such a high level of radiation, all frequent flyers would get cancer.

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