Talk:Millimeter wave scanner

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[edit] Health concerns?

Does this technology pose the same cumulative cancer risk associated with the previous "backscatter X-ray" devices that the (United States) Transportation Security Administration had proposed? 66.171.171.99 (talk) 17:03, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Good question--the newspaper articles don't seem to even bring this issue up, let alone explore it in detail. Badagnani (talk) 17:33, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
No, RF waves are non-ionizing. -- Beland (talk) 20:00, 5 May 2008 (UTC)