{"id":295424,"date":"2011-03-14T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T10:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/tsa-to-retest-full-body-scanners-for-radiation\/"},"modified":"2018-10-31T04:29:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T08:29:05","slug":"tsa-to-retest-full-body-scanners-for-radiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/tsa-to-retest-full-body-scanners-for-radiation\/","title":{"rendered":"TSA to Retest Full-Body Scanners for Radiation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Transportation Security Administration announced late last week that it will retest 247 full-body X-ray scanners at 38 airports after maintenance records showed radiation levels 10 times higher than expected.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The TSA said the records reflected mathematical errors made by contracted monitors but will retest every scanner to reassure a weary public of their safety.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The agency expects the new round of testing to be complete by the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In response to the supposed monitoring errors, the TSA said it is taking steps to &#8220;retrain personnel involved in conducting and overseeing the radiation survey process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/travel\/flights\/2011-03-11-tsa-scans_N.htm?csp=34news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">USA Today <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Flickr: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/quinnanya\/4823442859\/sizes\/l\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">quinn.anya <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Transportation Security Administration announced late last week that it will retest 247 full-body X-ray scanners at 38 airports after maintenance records showed radiation levels 10 times higher than expected. &nbsp; The TSA said the records reflected mathematical errors made by contracted monitors but will retest every scanner to reassure a weary public of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98898332,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295424\/revisions\/98898332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}