James Bond. What a man. There are so many contrived scenes in these movies just because things are current news that JB usually ends up somewhere groovy. There's no need for him to slide down the Millenium Dome in London in his last(?) film, but it was there at the time, so they made it fit the film. Why did JB wander around the pyramids in one of his films? Why does he go anywhere? Because it makes interesting viewing.

The radiation shields mentioned in the film and jumped upon by DP (cool) were never meant to be regarded as spacecraft radiation shields. In laboratories where X-rays or radiation is used, everyone wears a little yellow badge called a 'radiation shield'. Every few months, they are all collected and checked to see what dose everyone has been exposed to. This is called 'checking the radiation shields'. I've worn one for a while. No big deal. It's even obvious that it's the little badges that they are talking about in the film. The lab tech even gives one to JB. DP has just taken a single line of dialogue completely out of context and turned it into a global conspiracy.