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A European Country Started to Distribute “Anti-radioactive Pills”
Firefighters will have iodine pills to distribute in a nuclear disaster.
A little less than a month ago, I wrote a first-hand article about Putin’s plans to unleash a radioactive apocalypse on Europe by attacking the largest nuclear power plant on the continent (the ZNPP). Some people commented on how paranoid or apocalyptic I was.
If, as those commenters in my last article are right, I was being paranoid, so the Polish government also drank from the same source that I had, and started to distribute iodine pills to local firefighters.
In the event of a nuclear disaster, the firefighters must give these “anti-radioactive” tablets to the people.
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How do iodine tablets work?
The thyroid gland can’t tell the difference between stable and radioactive iodine, so it will absorb both. If radioactive iodine is “flying around” after a radioactive incident, the thyroid will absorb it.
And you DON’T want that. Not even for your worst enemy.
Potassium iodate tablets (let’s call them KI tablets) stop radioactive iodine from getting into the thyroid by “saturating” it.
When a person takes KI, the thyroid absorbs the stable iodine in the medicine. There is so much stable iodine in the KI tablets that the thyroid gland gets “full” and can’t take in any more iodine, stable or radioactive, for the next 24 hours.
So, taking it before the exposure helps prevent radioactive iodine absorption by the thyroid gland.
In the case of a leak in the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, if the wind is not too strong, it would take 38 hours for the radioactive cloud to arrive in Poland. These KI tablets would need to reach the population way before that.
For this reason, the Polish government took such precautions — and the Poles are cautious people lately. This is one of the reasons they are managing to be one of the most resilient nations in the world during 2022.
