Radiation From Japan Detected At O’Hare Airport

[sabra]

Source: chicago cbslocal

CHICAGO (CBS) — Trace amounts of radiation from Japan have been detected in Chicago.

As WBBM Newsradio 780′s Mike Krauser reports, travelers coming in from Japan on Wednesday triggered radiation detectors at O’Hare as they passed through customs. Only very small amounts of radiation were detected.

“We are aware of the radiation,” said Chicago Aviation Department spokesman Karen Pride. “We are adding screenings and precautionary measures.”

In one instance, radiation was detected in a plane’s air filtration system. Radiation was also found in luggage and on passengers on flights from Japan.

Read more: http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/03/17/radiation-from-japan-dectected-at-ohare-airport/

[Scuba]

1. Nothing to see here folks. Now go on back to hating your neighbors. n/t

[CoffeeCat]

2. ...and watching Dancing with the Stars and Idol (nt)

[abelenkpe]

4. Well they are detestable, so OK

kidding! ;)

[slay]

28. Being radioactive is the new normal haven't you heard?

that is some scary shit. we should NOT be playing around with this stuff. we clearly only understand it to the level necessary to exploit it. while i know this deal at the airport in chicago isn't supposedly dangerous - this is FAR from normal and far from ok.

[cbdo2007]

3. It's not like it spreads like the flu. It is being dispersed, just like it's supposed to.

The only thing being "spread" here is fear and panic.

This is like the republicans with terrorism.

[Mojorabbit]

6. They are telling people in Tokyo

that levels are safe. I don't think we have good information due to panic control. I would like good info instead of snark or obfuscation.

[cbdo2007]

14. Of course there is radiation in Tokyo and planes from Japan....

but it isn't helpful for people to announce the first time radiation hits their city, like they did with the Swine flu or the Bird flu, because the radiation isn't going to spread when it gets here.

This isn't good info, it's scaring the shit out of people all over the country unnecessarily. Now idiots all over the midwest are going to think radiation is getting closer because it's in Chicago.

[Mojorabbit]

23. You think it is better to keep the population

in the dark? To censor the news? I prefer reporting of what is happening. I don't need any sugar coating or censorship "for my own good". I don't need to be managed.

[cbdo2007]

24. Traces of radiation on people coming from a nuclear disaster area isn't news!

[vanbean]

27. There is no such thing as a safe level of radiation. It is just a matter of statistics.

[Hissyspit]

10. Like it's "supposed" to?

[Zorra]

30. Yes, but I don't want radiation. Just like I don't want the flu.

If y'all like nuclear energy and radiation so much, just keep it to yourselves, OK?

Because I don't want that shit anywhere near me or my kids.

[StarryNite]

5. Thank God it's healthy!

:sarcasm:

[Divine Discontent]

7. I wonder how far away from it you'd have to have been in Japan, not to set off the detectors?

[ElsewheresDaughter]

8. MSNBC AND all tthe MSM is lying ...saying this plume coming to CA tomorrow ...

isn't bad....YES IT IS...it will fall on all the food supply and beef supply...dairy all radioactive

and if they don't ENTOMB the Fukushima like Cherenobyl did ...the fallout will be forever on our food farmlands....


ENTOMB it NOW!!!

[ReturnoftheDjedi]

11. it took 10 months to build the Chernobyl Sarcophagus

And that was just 1 reactor. Not 6.

Fuck!

[ElsewheresDaughter]

19. fuck...well they better get on it....we are going to have at least 2/3 seasons of radioactive crops

[Bardley]

32. can you imagine what all out nuclear war would have been?

amazing how people completely forgot about living under that nightmare threat

kind of amazing how, if something is beyond your comprehension, it no longer exists

[godai]

12. Honestly, it's not that bad. Really...n/t

[ElsewheresDaughter]

20. agent mike, is that you?

[Earth_First]

9. TSA is going to have a FIELD DAY with this...

CODE RED!

[truthisfreedom]

15. STRIP DOWN AND PREPARE FOR FONDLING!

[BlueIris]

29. Really. Those perverts will now have every excuse in the world for their shit. nt

[jtuck004]

13. "My parents went to Japan and all they brought me were these lousy neutrons" eom

[truthisfreedom]

16. Not funny yet. May never be. Although I laughed, then punished myself.

[Bardley]

31. ok then how about 'godzilla seen exiting plane at ohare incognito'

wearing styish ray-an wayfarer sunglasses made famous by the blues brothers. when asked why she was leaving japan, and noting that as a symbol of man's destruction of the envornonment that she had a duty to stay, she angrilly retorted "reading 'atlass shrugged' by ayn rand changed my life. i'm tired of being told what i exist for. i have no purpose, but to live for myself. i find america is a place where i can do that and reach my potential. i am confident that in time my long tail and destructive tendencies will be less noticed"

[louslobbs]

17. Ugh! lol, if I don't laugh at this point, I won't be able to stop the tears.

Lou

[jtuck004]

22. I know. Thought about that, but damn, I am not seeing a good outcome

from this, so humor may be in really short supply over the next few weeks. And with radiation levels rising they are telling people with no food or water supplies to seal themselves in their home. We may just be on the edge of a another major disaster.

What I really find not funny is that they would board people on an international flight, from a city where
there is a known nuclear emergency, exposing others, irradiating the plane, etc. Is anyone thinking?

Is the denial that deep? Is it so bad that it kept TEPCO from taking the most dramatic steps early to save the reactors?

I have seen several things here that make me wonder about this response. I would really like to think they are doing the best
that can be done, but arguments over whether a damn tank of fuel rods is covered with water?

[Robbien]

26. All the international rich banksters grabbed their private jets and flew out

of Japan a couple of days ago. Those rich elite not having private jets have been chartering private jets to get them out to Hong Kong. The private charter service is doing a boom business.

The rats are leaving the ship.

Seems they are also not seeing a good outcome.

[Taverner]

18. Headline misleading in this one

Of COURSE a plane that flew from Japan to Chicago will have radiation - Japan has been irradiated.

It's not like the flu where you can 'catch radiation'

The headline makes it look as if radiation spread from Japan all the way to Chicago via the wind.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

21. not misleading MSNBC just now reporting that customs geiger counting alerted from people

also same at airport in San Fransisco

[Baclava]

25. Unreal

I'll just file this under the ..."This can't be good" section for now.