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

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Potassium iodide can be dangerous if taken incorrectly

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Potassium iodide can be dangerous if taken incorrectly


People should not take potassium iodide unnecessarily. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)


By Shari Roan, Los Angeles TimesMarch 16, 2011, 11:53 a.m.

Potassium iodide supplements are flying off drug-store shelves in the United States, according to a number of reports. There are two reasons why this is not a good thing. One, experts have repeatedly reassured Americans that any radiation from the leaking nuclear reactors in Japan will not be a threat in this country. The radiation will dissipate as it traverses the Pacific Ocean. Buying it is a waste of money.

Two, taking potassium iodide tablets without just cause can be risky for some people, health experts warned Wednesday.

"All of the predictions are that there will not be enough radiation reaching Hawaii or the West Coast to be of any concern, said Dr. Leonard Wartofsky, an endocrinologist at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., and a past president of the Endocrine Society. "Although in Japan, especially among those living very close to the reactor, there is major exposure and there is reason to take iodide tablets or solution."

Potassium iodide is not recommended until radiation levels are in the 50-rad region, he said. "It's not going to be anywhere near that in the United States. It's hitting the panic button unnecessarily."

In cases of true radiation exposure, the benefits of potassium iodide outweigh the risks.

Taking stable iodide tablets can protect the thyroid from exposure to radioactive iodine-131 by "filling up" the gland and preventing it from taking up the radioactive iodine. But potassium iodide can be harmful to people who are allergic to the substance or who have the skin disorders dermatitis herpetiformis or urticaria vasculitis, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

People with thyroid disorders who take the substance can experience a worsening of their thyroid illnesses, Wartofsky said. If potassium iodide is truly necessary for these people, they should take it under a doctor's supervision. Pregnant women and infants should not be given potassium iodide because it could cause a serious thyroid disorder in infants.

The supplements can cause some side effects including nausea, rashes and inflammation of the salivary glands.

[Joe234]

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Potassium iodide can be dangerous if taken incorrectly


People should not take potassium iodide unnecessarily. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)


By Shari Roan, Los Angeles TimesMarch 16, 2011, 11:53 a.m.

Potassium iodide supplements are flying off drug-store shelves in the United States, according to a number of reports. There are two reasons why this is not a good thing. One, experts have repeatedly reassured Americans that any radiation from the leaking nuclear reactors in Japan will not be a threat in this country. The radiation will dissipate as it traverses the Pacific Ocean. Buying it is a waste of money.

Two, taking potassium iodide tablets without just cause can be risky for some people, health experts warned Wednesday.

"All of the predictions are that there will not be enough radiation reaching Hawaii or the West Coast to be of any concern, said Dr. Leonard Wartofsky, an endocrinologist at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., and a past president of the Endocrine Society. "Although in Japan, especially among those living very close to the reactor, there is major exposure and there is reason to take iodide tablets or solution."

Potassium iodide is not recommended until radiation levels are in the 50-rad region, he said. "It's not going to be anywhere near that in the United States. It's hitting the panic button unnecessarily."

In cases of true radiation exposure, the benefits of potassium iodide outweigh the risks.

Taking stable iodide tablets can protect the thyroid from exposure to radioactive iodine-131 by "filling up" the gland and preventing it from taking up the radioactive iodine. But potassium iodide can be harmful to people who are allergic to the substance or who have the skin disorders dermatitis herpetiformis or urticaria vasculitis, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

People with thyroid disorders who take the substance can experience a worsening of their thyroid illnesses, Wartofsky said. If potassium iodide is truly necessary for these people, they should take it under a doctor's supervision. Pregnant women and infants should not be given potassium iodide because it could cause a serious thyroid disorder in infants.

The supplements can cause some side effects including nausea, rashes and inflammation of the salivary glands.

I would not take it unless we are instructed to do so. Never hurts to have some on hand.

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Fear of Radiation is a Bigger Health Risk Than Radiation Itself

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Fear of Radiation is a Bigger Health Risk Than Radiation Itself

A top expert on radiation, doing studies for the World Health Organization, reports that fear of radiation exposure has caused more health problems than the radiation itself. Other experts on psychological effects of radiation agree. In addition to the fear of the effects of the radiation, survivors are stigmatized by their society, increasing stress and feelings of isolation. This stigmatization can interfere with the survivors getting proper health care, jobs, and economic stability. Others turn away from them, fearing that association with those who have been exposed to radiation can be "catching." Experts who have studied these impacts at Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Nagasaki, and Hiroshima, say that the fear and stigmatization causes so much stress in the people affected that, overall, the stress is more damaging to health than the radiation itself.

This is a similar finding to that associated with the stigmatization of HIV/AIDs patients.

Because others fear the disease, those affected by it may not get the treatment and care needed. The impact of the social stigma increases the stress and fear, which dramatically increases all forms of health problems.

Steven Becker, of the University of Alabama, who studied the psychological impact of other radiation events, says people who are suspected of being exposed to radiation suffer from economic discrimination by the society. Others are afraid to do business with them, visit them, or let them travel and stay in hotels. This leads to a culture of hopelessness, which is passed down through generations. On an individual level, anxiety disorders and depression contribute to an overall health degeneration. Radiation ranks near the top of the list of things people fear deeply.

The many stresses of our lives have deep and lasting impacts on our health. Those things which we fear will happen can do more damage than those things that actually happen. A culture of fear can be passed on to our children, damaging an entire society for decades. Information and education are the best tools to combat fear.




DON'T WORRY .... BE HAPPY??

[GoVegan]

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...

Please tell me your kidding. Please tell all of the families that have lost their homes and will be effected by cancer years from now that this is all a bunch of anti nuclear BS. Unfortunately nuclear power is needed but too often these power companies pick crappy locations to pick their "entirely safe" plants. PG&E tried to put a plan near the coast here until enough people got upset because the projected plant would be right on top of a fault line. It is the people like Joe 6 Pack here that care enough to try and keep companies building these plants accountable for the safety of the surrounding population. We may need nuclear power but I certainly don't trust the power company to locate them in the safest place and design them with safety rather than cost in mind. Thank You Joe!

[Joe234]

Please tell me your kidding. Please tell all of the families that have lost their homes and will be effected by cancer years from now that this is all a bunch of anti nuclear BS. Unfortunately nuclear power is needed but too often these power companies pick crappy locations to pick their "entirely safe" plants. PG&E tried to put a plan near the coast here until enough people got upset because the projected plant would be right on top of a fault line. It is the people like Joe 6 Pack here that care enough to try and keep companies building these plants accountable for the safety of the surrounding population. We may need nuclear power but I certainly don't trust the power company to locate them in the safest place and design them with safety rather than cost in mind. Thank You Joe!

The name ain't Joe Six Pack and I never stated here whether I was pro nuke or not.
Being prepared has nothing to do with a position on Nuke power. One can be pro nuke
and still stock iodine pills. If you want to know I used to be anti-nuke but in recent years
I was coming around to the pro nuke position. Now I'm not sure? I will reserve judgment.
Oil powered turbines kill through pollution in the long run. Pick your poison or reduce the
earth's population.

not six pack, Veg head. ( tongue in cheek)

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Graphic: Effects of radiation exposure



Surgeon general clarifies position on potassium iodide as protection against nuclear radiation



WOW ... Smoking a pack a day for one year tops the list!!

[Joe234]

WOW ... Smoking a pack a day for one year tops the list!!

Yes the doctor on CNN said something about Anderson Cooper and he getting equal to a pack
of cigs of radiation in Tokyo. He said, "while cigarettes are bad one pack isn't likely to kill you."

CNN said we got the equivalent of one tenth of one chest X-ray when the radioactivity
from Chernobyl circled the globe several times.

[sgreger1]

Please tell me your kidding. Please tell all of the families that have lost their homes and will be effected by cancer years from now that this is all a bunch of anti nuclear BS. Unfortunately nuclear power is needed but too often these power companies pick crappy locations to pick their "entirely safe" plants. PG&E tried to put a plan near the coast here until enough people got upset because the projected plant would be right on top of a fault line. It is the people like Joe 6 Pack here that care enough to try and keep companies building these plants accountable for the safety of the surrounding population. We may need nuclear power but I certainly don't trust the power company to locate them in the safest place and design them with safety rather than cost in mind. Thank You Joe!

Yah placing a nuclear facility should be a highly regulated affair. You should have to do a geographic study and make sure it's not on fault lines and PLAN FOR THE WORST like any reasonable person does in life. Accidents happen, plan ahead. PROTIP: Don't put a nuke plant so close to the city. This is only a minor partial meltdown and there is radiation in tokyo already, this was obviously not planned for at all, despite all this talk of strict japanese regulations I keep hearing about.

[GoVegan]

The name ain't Joe Six Pack and I never stated here whether I was pro nuke or not.
Being prepared has nothing to do with a position on Nuke power. One can be pro nuke
and still stock iodine pills. If you want to know I used to be anti-nuke but in recent years
I was coming around to the pro nuke position. Now I'm not sure? I will reserve judgment.
Oil powered turbines kill through pollution in the long run. Pick your poison or reduce the
earth's population.

not six pack, Veg head. ( tongue in cheek)

I was only quoting danielan in regards to the 6 pack. As far as nuclear power goes, I think it should only be used as a temporary source of power while renewable power sources like solar, wind and tidal energy are being perfected. In the 80's and electric car was a joke. They went 20 miles or so between charges and weren't very powerful. We now have electric cars that can easily go 100 miles and have no problems keeping up on the highway. I have a feeling that a car with a range of 200 miles is not far around the corner and hopefully the costs of those cars will go way down. Solar cells are also becoming more efficient over time. I have a feeling electricity will cost more in the future as we use more alternative sources but eventually those costs will stabilize and become a bargain next to using oil or coal. I also remember at one time we were working on nuclear fusion as a way to develop power but I have not heard any developments about that in years.

[Bigblue1]

I was only quoting danielan in regards to the 6 pack. As far as nuclear power goes, I think it should only be used as a temporary source of power while renewable power sources like solar, wind and tidal energy are being perfected. In the 80's and electric car was a joke. They went 20 miles or so between charges and weren't very powerful. We now have electric cars that can easily go 100 miles and have no problems keeping up on the highway. I have a feeling that a car with a range of 200 miles is not far around the corner and hopefully the costs of those cars will go way down. Solar cells are also becoming more efficient over time. I have a feeling electricity will cost more in the future as we use more alternative sources but eventually those costs will stabilize and become a bargain next to using oil or coal. I also remember at one time we were working on nuclear fusion as a way to develop power but I have not heard any developments about that in years.

Govegan I love ya, but those electric cars are usually charged by nuclear power so maybe they aren't the way either. I'm pretty sure at this state there will b no solar or tidal energy cars in the near future.......

[Joe234]

I was only quoting danielan in regards to the 6 pack. As far as nuclear power goes, I think it should only be used as a temporary source of power while renewable power sources like solar, wind and tidal energy are being perfected. In the 80's and electric car was a joke.

No prob. Danielan's all right too. My mind is not made up on nuclear power.
If they would keep them away from the sea there would be no tsunami threat.
Perhaps they will learn much more now.

[Joe234]

Salt sales soar in China amid Japan nuclear crisis


The Associated Press

Updated: Thu. Mar. 17 2011 6:34 AM ET
BEIJING — Worried shoppers stripped stores of salt in Beijing, Shanghai and other parts of China on Thursday in the false belief it can guard against radiation exposure, even though any fallout from a crippled Japanese nuclear power plant is unlikely to reach the country.

The panic shopping was triggered by rumours that iodized salt can help ward off radiation poisoning -- part of the swirl of misinformation crisscrossing the region in the wake of Japan's nuclear emergency.

The rumours have flown widely. Text messages on mobile phones have circulated about nuclear plumes spreading from Japan throughout Asia. Rumours also spread that salt was adequate protection for radiation sickness.

Supermarkets in the capital of Beijing and many cities across the country have run out of salt in the last several days as a wave of panic buying spread across provinces from eastern Zhejiang to southern Guangdong to western Sichuan.

Prices of salt jumped five or 10-fold in southern Guangdong, the Internet portal sina.com reported.
In Shanghai, Dong Linhua, a 57-year-old factory worker, said he wanted to buy just 2.2 pounds (1 kilogram) of salt but could not even find that.

"Salt is not available in any of the shops," he said. Though Dong said he didn't believe the rumours, he wanted to have the salt for his family.

On Thursday, the country's largest salt maker, China National Salt Industry Corp., issued a statement saying ample reserves were in place and that "panic-buying and hoarding is unnecessary," according to the official Xinhua News Agency.

The Ministry of Health posted information on its websitects of radiation poisoning, but regular table salt doesn't contain enough iodine to block the poisoning, according to health experts.

The Chinese government also weighed in Thursday, with Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu saying, "I do not see any necessity to panic."

The National Development and Reform Commission issued an urgent notice ordering local authorities to take "immediate action to monitor the market prices and resolutely crack down on illegal acts including spreading rumours to deceive the public."

Michael O'Leary, head of the World Health Organization in China, called on governments and individuals to "take steps to halt these rumours, which are harmful to public morale."

O'Leary said the WHO "would like to assure governments and members of the public that there is no evidence at this time of any significant international spread from the nuclear site."

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The name ain't Joe Six Pack and I never stated here whether I was pro nuke or not.
Being prepared has nothing to do with a position on Nuke power. One can be pro nuke
and still stock iodine pills. If you want to know I used to be anti-nuke but in recent years
I was coming around to the pro nuke position. Now I'm not sure? I will reserve judgment.
Oil powered turbines kill through pollution in the long run. Pick your poison or reduce the
earth's population.

not six pack, Veg head. ( tongue in cheek)

will this issue ever be addressed? No its considered "taboo" and it's just too profitable to have a society that clusterf***s in strip malls. humans have ruined paradise on earth through greed and ignorance. No worry though mother nature we'll take care of us eventually and push the reset button. ye i watched avatar last night

[sgreger1]

Nothing to see here, move along, nothing to worry about:

• NHK Live Video Feed (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)

• More Workers Join Race to Prevent Meltdown at Nuclear Plant (Bloomberg)
More than 300 workers are racing to prevent a meltdown and spread of radiation at the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi power station today, an increase from a group of 50 engineers yesterday.

• U.S. Calls Radiation ‘Extremely High,’ Sees Japan Nuclear Crisis Worsening (NYT)
The chairman of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission gave a far bleaker appraisal on Wednesday of the threat posed by Japan’s nuclear crisis than the Japanese government had offered. He said American officials believed that the damage to at least one crippled reactor was much more serious than Tokyo had acknowledged, and he advised Americans to stay much farther away from the plant than the perimeter established by Japanese authorities.

• (Strange) Mizuho Bank says its ATMs in Japan stopped working (Reuters)
Mizuho Bank said on Thursday that all of its automatic teller machines (ATM) throughout Japan have stopped working. The bank did not immediately give a reason for the outage.

• Why Japan embraced nuclear power after suffering the atomic bomb (Globe and Mail)
Japan’s 55 reactors produce nearly 30 per cent of the country’s electricity, and the long-term strategy before the Fukushima disaster was to push that figure to 50 per cent by 2030. Almost alone among its political allies, whose ambitions were reined in by the catastrophes at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, the land that experienced the atomic bomb has chosen to expand its network of nuclear plants, many of them knowingly built in seismic zones.

• U.S. Tells Nationals to Consider Leaving Quake-Hit Japan (Bloomberg)
The U.S. plans to evacuate citizens wanting to leave Japan along with military and diplomatic families, as concerns grow that authorities are failing to contain leaks from a quake-stricken nuclear plant.
The U.S. also advised citizens to keep 50 miles (80 kilometers) away from the Dai-Ichi plant in Fukushima, about 135 miles north of Tokyo, while the U.K. said people should consider leaving the capital.

• Helicopters Drop Water On Stricken Plant (WSJ)
In the latest attempt to cool down reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, helicopters from Japan’s Self-Defense Force started dropping ocean water on top of the overheated units.The measure, announced by the Japan Nuclear Agency, is seen as a highly unusual step and has never been tried before in Japan. The agency also said that power cables from an outside source would be available at Fukushima as early as this afternoon.

• Asian Stocks Drop on Worsening Crisis at Japan Nuclear Reactor (Bloomberg)
Asian stocks fell, leading a regional benchmark index lower for the third time this week, on renewed concern that a worsening nuclear crisis in Japan may cripple the world’s third-largest economy.

• U.S. Sounds Alarm on Radiation (WSJ)
Fear about radiation dangers posed by Japan’s nuclear crisis spiked as the U.S. instructed its troops and citizens to stay at least 50 miles away from the crippled reactors.
The U.S. “no-go” zone is far wider than the buffer established by the Japanese government itself. The top U.S. nuclear regulator, Gregory Jaczko, on Wednesday called radiation levels at one of the units at the plant “extremely high,” adding that, “for a comparable situation in the United States we would recommend an evacuation for a much larger radius than is currently being provided in Japan.”

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain . . .

[truthwolf1]

No more gulf shrimp and now Alaskan seafood for a very long time.