radiation safety precautions before
After the nuclear accident in central Fukushima in Japan, the Nipponese authorities implemented an emergency plan to prevent public exposure to radioactive materials. The first was to distance people from the nuclear plant, and the prophylactic administration of potassium iodide tablets, which counteracts the effect of radioactive iodine, flattering thyroid cancer. With the administration of iodine, the thyroid is saturated with iodine is not harmful, and when the radioactive iodine is inhaled or ingested in food, the body does not accumulate and excreted through the urine.
addition, cesium may be released into the atmosphere and this, to join the bone, damaged surface layers and cause loss of bone density, similar to osteoporosis.
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