This is a telling photo from Spain

[nadinbrzezinski]

A member of the Spanish Nuclear Safety Council checks radioactivity levels in a container after a plane carrying 154 passengers from Japan landed at Torrejon airbase, outside Madrid. REUTERS/Sergio Perez

Expect this to happen everywhere.

[damntexdem]

1. DEMAND that this happen everywhere!

Check first, then accept that everything's OK -- but only if everything turns out to be OK.

[Aerows]

2. Trust but verify n/t

[DCKit]

3. Shoot, why didn't we think of that?

Just pack up all the spent fuel, and put it on a passenger plane to some other country.

Not to minimize the gravity and danger of the situation in Japan, but this is just stupid.

Jeebus, you'd think the Japanese were dipping the planes into the reactors with this kind of response.

[buddysmellgood]

4. The ride on the plane gives a healthy dose of radiation.