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Because of this alert I actually learned that Ontario Power Generation and the city of Toronto offer free Potassium Iodine pills to anyone living within 50km of

• Scoundreller 7y ago
  > How many pills should I have on hand? > Each adult in the household should have 4 pills available, and each child should have two pills available. This is enough for 2 days supply. Is this enough? The radioactive half life of I-?131? is 8 days. Or is the dose so high that you won't uptake any from the environment for a while?
  • chiph 7y ago
    Presumably you have evacuated by then. There is more info available here: https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/emerg-preparedness/about-emerg-preparedness/potassium-iodide/ki-faq.html#kiexpired https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/emerg-preparedness/about-emerg... and here, about dosing: (pdf warning) https://www.fda.gov/media/72510/download https://www.fda.gov/media/72510/download
  • gpm 7y ago
    Or are they counting on their ability to distribute more pills within 2 days.
    • Scoundreller 7y ago
      Seems like a strange situation to hope for the best and cut costs. Maybe I underestimate the cost of iodine. I suspect they were worried about people getting free iodine for their meth labs and nuclear safety somehow lost to that battle...