Which American airports have the new full-body scanners?

By N.B. | WASHINGTON, DC

WORRIED about airport security personnel seeing you naked? Worry no more. America's Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which runs airport security, actually provides a complete list of airports that have installed "advanced imaging technology"—a.k.a. the new backscatter "full-body scanner" devices. So now you (and the terrorists) can avoid the fancy new machines. Transparency is more than just a strategy for the TSA: apparently, it's a way of life. The agency's frequently asked questions page for "advanced imaging technology," which includes the list, is right here.

Highlights of the FAQ include the exact numbers of full-body scanners in use at domestic airports ("486 advanced imaging technology machines located at 78 airports"), a list of other US locations where the scanners are used (three court houses and three state prisons, but not, say, the White House), and eight other questions designed to make passengers more comfortable with the new technology ("TSA is highly confident in its detection capability"). But what everyone wants to know is which airports have the full-body scanners in operation. As of December 23, 2010, this is the list:

• Albuquerque International Sunport Airport
• Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
• Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport
• Boston Logan International
• Bush Houston Interncontinental Airport
• Boise Airport
• Bradley International Airport
• Brownsville
• Buffalo Niagara International Airport
• Charlotte Douglas International
• Chicago Midway International Airport
• Chicago O'Hare International
• Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International
• Cleveland International Airport
• Corpus Christie Airport
• Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport
• Dayton International Airport
• Denver International Airport
• Detroit Metro Airport
• Dulles International Airport
• El Paso International Airport
• Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International
• Fort Wayne International Airport
• Fresno Airport
• Gulfport International Airport
• Grand Rapids Airport
• Harrisburg International Airport
• Harlingen/Valley International Airport
• Honolulu International Airport
• Houston William P. Hobby Airport
• Indianapolis International Airport
• Jacksonville International Airport
• John F. Kennedy International Airport
• Kansas City International
• LA/Ontario International
• LaGuardia International Airport
• Lambert/St. Louis International Airport
• Laredo International Airport
• Lihue Airport
• Los Angeles International
• Luis Munoz Marin International Airport
• McAllen Miller Airport
• McCarran International Airport
• Memphis International Airport
• Miami International Airport
• General Mitchell Milwaukee International Airport
• Melbourne International Airport
• Mineta San José International
• Minneapolis/St.Paul International Airport
• Nashville International Airport
• Newark Liberty International Airport
• Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport
• Oakland International Airport
• Omaha Eppley Field Airport
• Orlando International Airport
• Palm Beach International Airport
• Palm Springs International
• Philadelphia International Airport
• Phoenix International Airport
• Pittsburgh International Airport
• Port Columbus International
• Raleigh-Durham International Airport
• Richmond International Airport
• Rochester International Airport
• Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
• Saipan International Airport
• Salt Lake City International Airport
• San Antonio International Airport
• San Diego International Airport
• San Francisco International Airport
• Sarasota Bradenton International
• Seattle-Tacoma International Airport
• Spokane International Airport
• St. Petersburg-Clearwater International
• T.F. Green Airport
• Tampa International Airport
• Toledo Express
• Tulsa International Airport

The TSA's list of airports "receiving imaging technology soon" is empty for now, so if you're going to an airport that's not on this list and you are willing to bet the TSA updates its website frequently (far from a sure thing), you can be pretty confident that no one will be looking at your naughty bits. Of course, if you do fly out of one of these airports, you can always opt-out of the scanner and go for the "enhanced pat-down."

What do you folks think? Is there anyone out there who is actually worried enough about the new scanners that he will avoid this list of airports entirely? Do any Gulliver readers make a habit of opting for the pat-down? Or are we all sort of resigned to the new state of affairs?