FedEx finds missing radioactive package

[Omaha Steve]

Source: CNN

From Vivian Kuo,
FedEx on Friday found a package containing radioactive material that went missing a day earlier at one of its shipping stations in Knoxville, Tennessee, the company said.

The package contained a radioactive rod used in CT scans, which use X-rays to create images of patients' bodies.

The shipment was lost in transit between its origination point, a hospital in North Dakota, and the equipment's manufacturer in Tennessee.

FedEx spokeswoman Sandra Munoz said the rod was enclosed in a metal cylinder that was itself enclosed in a rectangular box. That rectangular box had originally been placed in another box that had the shipping information on it.


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/11/26/tennessee.fedex.radioactive/?hpt=T2

[Lost-in-FL]

1. From a CT Scan? Don't think so.

Maybe a PET Scan or Nuclear Medicine isotope. The package was protected (radiation from medical devices is very minor) for what I can read so what is the freaking big deal? CNN needs to find a reporter that knows what the heck they are talking about. This is so irresponsible. Why would they alarm people like this? What the @$& is wrong with journalism?

[Ozymanithrax]

2. Having lots of qualified journalists costs money and affects...

the bottom line.

The purpose of information media (I won't call it news) is to make money. Qualified journalists hinder that purpose.