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Presumably the millimeter wave body scanners, which are both invasive and relatively unstudied in its health effects.



Apparently millimeter wave radiation can be ionizing under the right circumstances. That's sort of terrifying.

http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.5294


The paper you referred to doesn't make any claims with regards to ionization - the effects considered are mainly having to do with the molecular dynamics behaviors of DNA.




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