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Old 31 January 2007, 03:31 AM
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Glasses Hot people setting off radiation alarms

When 75,000 football fans pack into Dolphin Stadium in Miami for the Super Bowl on February 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. 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.
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Old 31 January 2007, 04:01 AM
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Default Hot people setting off radiation alarms

Having had a medical procedure using radioisotopes, I can attest to the fact that it takes about two weeks to clear the average personnel monitor at a nuc power plant
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