The only place I trust that I can get a hand check is US airports. Even in a very busy terminal at JFK they were happy to hand check. So my recent trip to Spain, I brought my own film, but at the end of the trip I shipped all the film home via DHL. I could have carried it home becuase Madrid didn't have CT scanners, but I didn't know. I do worry that some countries have xrays when passing through customs before being allowed in the the country. (Russia had this and Mexico had it as well, but in both cases it was just normal xrays so it hasn't been a problem.)