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Be rest assured Ben’s previous job was in the medial imaging industry. While he worked on MRI machines rather than ionizing radiation, I think he’s very well aware of the dangers of X rays and has many projects dealing with ionizing radiation. There’s a lot of bad safety science YouTubers, Ben isn’t one of them :)

Funny thing: it’s actually rare to get radiation damage to human hands and feet since there’s not too much growing tissue there!

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>there’s not too much growing tissue there!

On the contrary, I was told stories in school that old IR doctors used to lose the hair on their hands after using the fluoro for years. The fingernails are also radiosensitive.

The main reason that X-rays of the hands and feet are usually very low risk is because the beam intensity (dose) required to penetrate the small amount of tissue is very low. Because the video uses a high-sensitivity detector (photon counter) the dose may be even less than usual. However, it would still be a regulatory violation if you did it in a hospital.

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