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Pills to reassure residents about nuclear safety?

FRENCHTOWN TWP: People near nuclear plant given pills to take during an emergency

The News Herald  (Michigan USA) By Angie Favot November 3, 2009

FRENCHTOWN TWP. — Residents and people working within a 10-mile radius of DTE Energy’s Fermi 2 nuclear power plant are being offered the option to take a pill during a nuclear emergency that blocks radioactive material from entering their thyroid gland.

On Oct. 1, the state made a free supply of potassium iodide available.

The pill is meant to be taken during a “general emergency,” the most serious type of power plant emergency, which must be declared by the plant and emergency officials.

Downriver communities in a 10-mile radius include Flat Rock, Rockwood, Brownstown Township, Woodhaven and Trenton.

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November 4, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, health, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, radioactive