Poland Begins Handing Out Iodine Pills On Fears Of Ukraine Nuclear Plant Meltdown

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[–]CreditKnifeMan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Gouging yourself with iodine is not the safest thing and only for an emergency....to make you feel better before you die a slow and painful death of radiation poisoning, most of which iodine can't help against in the slightest.

Radioactive iodine is a material that can be ingested and become trapped in the body.

Saturating the body with stable iodine will minimize absorbtion of radioactive iodine.

It is a duck-and-cover nuclear fallout equivalent.

If you want supplemental blast protection, then maybe try Americium.
It's used in smoke detectors, and Capitan America's super serums.
Cause America.

[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Radioactive iodine is only a small portion of the wide types of radiation you need to defend from, but it is the only one with a simple way to defend from. It's mostly a feel good measure to keep the public from panicking.

[–]CreditKnifeMan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Radioactive iodine is only a small portion of the wide types of radiation you need to defend from, but it is the only one with a simple way to defend from.

Yep.

It's mostly a feel good measure to keep the public from panicking.

I seriously doubt radiation is the super Boogeyman that they claim.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki rebuilt with minimal issues.

Fukushima seems to have walked it off.

Are you familiar with Galen Windsor?