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.
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.
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?
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.
What is fishy about it?
This should be removed from ‘Breaking News’ and re-categorized in ‘Broken News’.
I will let those of you with a better developed sense of humor write your own jokes.
I’m guessing at least half the people out there panic-buying iodide tablets have granite countertops in their kitchens....
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/24/garden/24granite.html
Hmmm...
Was it “as much radition as one would receive from a trans-Pacific airline flight”?
I visited a nuclear facility years ago, on the way out my wristwatch set off a wand. That stuff they put on the numbers to glow in the dark has a minute amount of rad in it.
In other news, White House Spokesman Jay Carney today stated that, in a stunning reversal, radiation is NOT harmful to human beings. In fact, it’s good for you.
“Singapore Air Postpones New Tokyo A380 route”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704261504576205443882834466.html