Posted on 03/17/2011 1:32:09 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Chicago - Fears of nuclear radiation in Japan have now hit Chicago, after a plane landing at O'Hare Airport tested for positive for radiation, but an expert in the field cautioned that there was no risk to the public from the incident.
A spokeperson for American Airlines confirmed that two planes from Tokyo tested positive for radiation Wednesday, one at O'Hare and one landing in Dallas.
The radiation at O'Hare was coming from a routine medical shipment that was bound for Mexico.
U.S. Customs said the radiation test was positive, but at no time was the radiation at unsafe levels.
The scan lasted about 15 minutes and no passengers were detained.
(Excerpt) Read more at nation.foxnews.com ...
Anyone else find this fishy?
I see it as...”more bad luck”.
i would run around flailing my arms as if my hair was on fire, but it all fell out after the cheyrnoble jetstream...
There is radiation all over the place. It isn't uncommon for radioactive packages to be shipped on aircraft. It requires a special container, depending on the activity. Radiopharmaceuticals are formulated to be rapidly shipped to a medical facility and administered at a specific time when the activity has been calculated to deliver the right dosage for testing or therapeutics.
Try walking around all day everyday with a rad pager like I do (part of the job)and you'll be surprised.
LOL...I know exactly what you mean.
I’m just waiting for some moron to get a couple of old smoke detectors, break them open and walk around the airport.
That they are reporting everyday occurrences as if they are big news? That they know that "radiation from Japan" will mislead people but catch attention and get clicks/sell papers?
Yes.
Wait until someone walks in who’s just had a heart scan or prostate treatment.
Hoo boy! I had one woman walk into my surveillance field who still had the bandage on her IV puncture site. The 2 mR field was a meter from her body!
Saturated every detector I had for 100 feet. The spectroscopy showed the Tc99 right away, so no big panic. Just isolating the source to her was a challenge, because the instruments we were using were so sensitive.
Lots of radioactive materials fly aboard commercial airliners.
Of course, they’re all subjected to Haz-Mat control and can only be transported by companies and individuals that have passed IATA certified training...
Let me know when they will glow in the night flying over..
The part that scares me about this isn’t this small radiation. It is that it could be used as cover to smuggle something that is a real threat into the US.
Was one the Enola Gay?
Lowry Mays, founder of Clear Channel Communications, honestly explains the purpose of the media (broadcast in this particular case):
"We're not in the business of providing news and information. We're not in the business of providing well-researched music. We're simply in the business of selling our customers products."
Doing whatever it takes to attract as many eyes and/or ears in the target demographic is the raison d'être for the mass media. That's how to acquaint consumers with products and services offered by the advertisers.
Is anyone surprised? If there is any radiation in the upper atmosphere, it will attach itself to any planes flying through it. The article states that the levels were not harmful, so there is no reason to get excited about it.
A good friend was a NUPOC officer in the Navy, he helped install the reactors on board the Abraham Lincoln and went through her first deployment on her. He had a hip problem and they did a scan where they injected him with a radioactive solution like this woman did. He went back to work and when he used the head he set off all the detectors nearby, had to go through decontamination. He to this day still laughs that somewhere buried in a lined pit wrapped a dozen times in plastic is the urinal cake he whizzed on.
You do everytime someone posts a factual article.
What is fishy about it?
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