Potassium Iodate KiO3 Tablets-Prepare for Meltdown-KIO3 Anti-Nuke Pills

[justintempler]

It's still bad - the only result from 3 mile island was that Joe 6 pack started believing all of the anti-nuclear BS.

This set the industry back 30 years. I don't see any legitimate path forward that doesn't require nuclear or a severe loss of standard of living...

Even with nuclear we're going to have a severe loss of standard of living. The only question really is, do you want it with the lights on or the lights off? Nothing will replace the dwindling oil and natural gas. We'll need all the forms of the alternatives including nuclear.

[sgreger1]

It's still bad - the only result from 3 mile island was that Joe 6 pack started believing all of the anti-nuclear BS.

This set the industry back 30 years. I don't see any legitimate path forward that doesn't require nuclear or a severe loss of standard of living...

I agree, there's just no other viable option in my opinion, and furthermore you can make nuclear reactors MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH safer than these 40 year old ones which have been in the news lately.

I think the worst damage from this will be that more people get misinformation about nuclear power. I hate hearing ignorance from the left about how evil nuclear is and I am sure this will be spawning a lot more of that kind of talk. So be it, doesn't change the fact that nuclear is still our only option. I'd rather live next door to a nuclear power plant than a coal power plant or oil refinery, the odds of a nuclear facility having any problems is so minuscule that it wouldn't even bother me.


Edit: Like JT said, oil and coal ARE OUR SOURCES OF POWER, to replace them would require us giving it everything we had frankly, we'd have to use everything at our disposal and even then we would not be as comfy as we are with oil and coal. We better up our space program, I heard there are lots of free rare chemicals up there waiting to be had.

[Bigblue1]

better Get your pills people.
http://www.infowars.com/radiation-fr...-to-reach-u-s/

[truthwolf1]

better Get your pills people.
http://www.infowars.com/radiation-fr...-to-reach-u-s/

BigBlue, or anyone.. Do you think the particles will reach the midwest in substantial enough levels to cause worry?

or is it going to blanket and settle in the west for the most part?

[beja]

better Get your pills people.
http://www.infowars.com/radiation-fr...-to-reach-u-s/

Actually, I grew up about 8 miles from a nuclear plant and once a year the county health department would issue potassium iodate tablets to the public. The newspaper would announce "come get your pills!". It never struck me as anything out of the usual as a kid to have these around the house.

[Bigblue1]

I've read it could possibly head as far east as Illinois. It all depends on the prevailing winds. I don't know $30 doesn't seem bad for some insurance. Also it's not a bad thing to take anyway from the research I've been doing. From what I've read most of our thyroids are already toxic anyway with Bromide. It is used in a lot of things and is molecularly like iodine so it will be absorbed by the thyroid. Anyway you can read about bromide toxicity Here

Check this page out to http://www.iodine4health.com/overvie...udiovisual.htm

[Darwin]

BigBlue, or anyone.. Do you think the particles will reach the midwest in substantial enough levels to cause worry?

or is it going to blanket and settle in the west for the most part?

Not the least likely in the midwest and almost as unlikely on the west coast unless several reactor containment vessels blow sky high which is an extremely low probability. These reactors are not at all like those at Chernobyl which had no containment vessels at all. The Japanese build quality stuff and that includes nuclear power stations. Their containment vessels are state of the art and tough as hell so any worries about massive contamination are way overblown. Not entirely impossible, since nothing is, but I'd take generous betting odds against any major containment breaches. It will be a hideously expensive mess to clean up but there is unlikely to be any major release of radioactive substances. That these units survived such a massive shaking at all is miraculous and a testament to their build quality.

[Frosted]

My last Toyota was a heap of poo.

[Darwin]

Well my 10 year-old Nissan pickup has been reliable as an anvil. It was built in the U.S. for whatever that's worth. Most Nissans, Toyotas, and Hondas sold here are built here but I don't know if the same situation obtains in the E.U. Except for the pricey upper-end models it's just cheaper to build them here.

[fishmeat]

[sgreger1]

BigBlue, or anyone.. Do you think the particles will reach the midwest in substantial enough levels to cause worry?

or is it going to blanket and settle in the west for the most part?

I wouldn't worry about it at all. Having some pills will help but they aren't going to actually save you from anything. This is not chernobyle and the outcome will almost assuredly not be anything like Chernobyle. People in the immediate vicinity of this reactor should be fearing for their lives, but over here across the pond I wouldn't worry much because any radiation that got over here would be infinitesmall. Not enough to where I would take iodine or anything.


Unless something completely unexpected and catastrophic happens, I am not going to worry about this. The odds of these reactors blowing radioactive particulate matter up into the statosphere/ionopshere like Chernobyle is pretty unlikely due to the good quality construction of these facilities. They planned for this exact type of event, it will kill some locals but probably not affect us here in any real meaningfull way, at least not thsoe of us in California .

[sgreger1]

Alex jones is correct in stating this though:

Assurances from officials that any radiation would dissipate over the Pacific Ocean before reaching the United States are tenuous given the fact that pollution from Chinese coal factories, traveling significantly greater distances, routinely hits California.

“Previous studies have documented that dust from Asia — especially from deserts and industrial regions of China — routinely crosses the Pacific Ocean on prevailing winds to sully the air over the western U.S.,” highlights Massie Santos Ballon, a student in the Science Communication Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has also studied how, “About a third of the airborne lead particles recently collected at two sites in the San Francisco Bay Area came from Asia.”

[Frosted]

I feel that it'll only affect Japan.
If the core has melted they'll probably have to fill it with concrete. The radiation will hang around for a few centuries.
Japan is in a bad way right now.

Great news if you work in construction.

[Darwin]

Not only construction but the timber business as well--could be a bonanza for the moribund timber industry in the U.S. northwest to the tune of many millions of board-feet of lumber. It will that is if sufficient acreage can be accessed that is not proscribed by Uncle Sugar for multitudinous sundry environmental reasons.

[Darwin]

Update: Another explosion has occurred at the Fukushima power station. Supposedly this one is in a reactor vessel. The containment structure is separate and may not have been breached but it's becoming obvious that the quake scrambled the innards of the reactor as badly as the accompanying equipment and turbine generator buildings.