Rabbit, you definitely have a point with the radiation levels for people who fly long haul. JAR now requires companies to keep score of how much radiation aircrews are exposed to; most companies I believe use a calculation model for this.
This X-ray machine would have a benefit immediately apparent to most crew memebers in our comp though.
Last week yet again a so-called "bolletjes slikker" (cocain-mule, peson who swallows up to 90 condoms full of cocain and transports these in his/her gut across borders) died on one of our aircraft.
The condoms become loosened or break and the mule dies a terrible death. It is a traumatic experience for both passengers and crew members who are forced to experience the death throws up close.
These deaths are a regular occurence on certain routes, and x-raying pax would seem an effective way of keeping these mules off our aircraft.