"Hot" patients setting off radiation alarms (Homeland Security's 'Dirty Bomb' detectors)

Yahoo ^ | 1/28/07

[ClearCase_guy]

"Garth, my Babe-ometer says your mom is really hot!"

[Hodar]

Oh, heaven forbid we inconvenience 0.00001% of the world's population to protect 100% of the local population.

I'd rather be stopped, striped and searched on every flight I make, knowing that Abdullah and his buddies are going to be screened as well; than dropping this screening technique and endangering millions.

Those Islamic animals wouldn't have hesitated to have killed 300 Million people instead of 3 thousand; if they had the means. They have no honor, no cause, no provocation and no rationale for what they did. Why do we need to justify the need to protect ourselves from them?

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Over here.....

[Drango]

a very embarrassed 46-year-old Briton who set off the sensors at Orlando airport in Florida six weeks after having radioiodine treatment for a thyroid condition.

I was on a ferry in Seattle when a patient set off an a rad alarm. All heck broke lose.

[al baby]

I toll all of yous its true it happened in tiajunna my freinds beeber was stunned

[al baby]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1162751/posts

[Mr. Brightside]

The story made me think of these lyrics:



Well I'm not uptight
Not unattracted
Turn me on tonight
Cause I'm radioactive


- RADIOACTIVE
- The Firm

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

I can't find the link......

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

AHA!!!

[al baby]

I got ya covered thanks for the ping

[sure_fine]

"With the rising use of radioisotopes in medicine and the growing use of radiation detectors in a security-conscious nation, patients are triggering alarms in places where they may not even realize they're being scanned, doctors and security officials say."




and the terrorists say THANK YOU FOR THE TIP

[Calpernia]

>>>>I'd rather be stopped, striped and searched on every flight I make, knowing that Abdullah and his buddies are going to be screened as well; than dropping this screening technique and endangering millions.

To support that, my parents were on vacation in the UK when that entire 'liquids on the plane' debacle unfolded.

They were delayed coming back. My mom had her gum and lifesavers confiscated. Since she had gum and lifesavers, my parents had to go through additional searches.

When they arrived back at Newark Airport, they all had to line up against the wall while deplaning and get sniffed out by dogs.

As soon as they finally made it home, the first thing they did, before even calling me to let me know they were alright, was to make reservations for Hawaii.

Not everyone is inconvenienced by these extra measures.

[DBrow]

This problem is being worked.

The main problem is that we deployed "radiation detectors" that just detected radiation- so if you have been treated with Iodine-131, you trip the detector designed to detect generic "radiation". They could not discriminate the spectrum, or "color" of the radiation.

The new generation of sensors are basically spectrometers, so when you walk past emitting Iodine-131 gamma photons or Thallium photons, the sensor can see this.

Walk around with Co-60 or Cs-137 or U or Pu, they'll see that, too, and someone will chat with you. So the medical stuff will be ignored (depending on quantity of course) and the "bad stuff" will be flagged.

After 9/11 we fielded what we could field in a hurry, and patients being detained for no good reason is the consequence.

[angkor]

I had the nuclear imaging stress test and was a little surprised when my doctor gave me a letter addressed "To Whom It May Concern" and explaining the test and the latent radiation. It also had all his contact info, etc.

I was on business travel two days later but nothing happened.

[politicalwit]

"Oh, heaven forbid we inconvenience 0.00001% of the world's population to protect 100% of the local population."

I didn't see where too many people were complaining. Geezzz...take a pill.

[Chickensoup]

I'd rather be stopped, striped and searched

Sounds kinky.

Do you prefer zebra or tiger?

[BobS]

Gee. This sounded like an article about women getting pattied. I did some work with cesium and plutonium in the past, and had a good physical a few years ago with something radioactive stuck in me. Is that why women around me get worked up? Or, should I be more careful about what words leave my mouth?

[Calpernia]

Face it Bob, you are too hot to trot :)

[So Cal Rocket]

And here is an actual photo of the stuned beeber: