'Hot' Patients Setting Off Dirty-Bomb Alarms
A Reuters newswire article, via MSNBC, reports that:
When 75,000 football fans pack into Dolphin Stadium in Miami for the Super Bowl on Feb. 4, at least a few may want to carry notes from their doctors explaining why they’re radioactive enough to set off “dirty bomb” alarms.More here.
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.
Nearly 60,000 people a day in the United States undergo treatment or tests that leave tiny amounts of radioactive material in their bodies, according to the Society of Nuclear Medicine. It is not enough to hurt them or anyone else, but it is enough to trigger radiation alarms for up to three months.
posted by Fergie @ 1/29/2007 10:56:00 AM
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