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bananas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-29-11 04:57 PM
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Sweden tells citizens to begin taking iodide tablets within 150 miles of Fukushima - Includes Tokyo
Edited on Tue Mar-29-11 05:02 PM by bananas
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Sweden tells citizens to begin taking iodide tablets if within 150 miles of Fukushima — Includes Tokyo
March 29th, 2011 at 04:14 AM

Embassies ready iodide tablets, Japan Times, March 29, 2011:

… (T)he Swedish Embassy is recommending on its website that citizens within 250 km of the Fukushima plant take (iodide tablets) once every three days.

An embassy official was unavailable for comment.

“The recommendation by the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority that all Swedes who are staying within a radius of 250 km from the Fukushima No. 1 power plant to take iodide tablets every three days is still valid,” the embassy’s website, last updated Saturday, says. “Best protection against radioactive iodine is to take iodide tablets before the exposure, as doing so afterward will prove too late.” …


edit to add: full article at http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110329a8.html

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dixiegrrrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-29-11 05:32 PM
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1. But Japan is not telling Toyko citizens to take them?
Or to leave?
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