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Originally Posted by Langrisserx
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yae plus the iodine pills dont protect u from this type of radiation
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What "type" of radiation are you referring to?
Iodine pills prevent radioactive iodine from being absorbed by the thyroid gland and causing cancer. If you ingest water with radioactive particles in it some of these will be radioactive iodine, which is a major component of fission products. Other products will be flushed out normally but iodine is nasty hence the pills.
If this was a real risk, this is ABSOLUTELY what iodine pills are for!!! Any nuclear accident, any dirty bomb or nuclear detonation will produce fission products.
Regards,
Mg