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The non-radioactive iodide "saturates" the thyroid, causing less of the radioiodine to be stored in the body. Administering potassium iodide reduces the effects of radio-iodine by 99% and is a prudent, inexpensive supplement to fallout shelters. A low-cost alternative to commercially available iodine pills is a saturated solution of potassium ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) provides guidelines for potassium iodide use following a nuclear accident. The dosage of potassium iodide is age-dependent: neonates (<1 month) require 16 mg/day; children aged 1 month to 3 years need 32 mg/day; those aged 3-12 years need 65 mg/day; and individuals over 12 years and adults require 130 mg/day ...
Fission product yields by mass for thermal neutron fission of U-235 and Pu-239 (the two typical of current nuclear power reactors) and U-233 (used in the thorium cycle). This page discusses each of the main elements in the mixture of fission products produced by nuclear fission of the common nuclear fuels uranium and plutonium.
Source of much of the decay heat together with 137 Cs on the timespan of years to decades after irradiation. Formerly used in radioisotope thermoelectric generators. 2.8336%: Iodine: 131 I: 8.02 d: Reason for the use of potassium iodide tablets after nuclear accidents or nuclear bomb explosions. 2.2713%: Promethium: 147 Pm: 2.62 y
Nuclear fallout effects on an ecosystem; Nuclear terrorism; Nuclear War Survival Skills by Cresson Kearny; Nuclear weapon design; Potassium iodide; Project GABRIEL; Protect and Survive, a series of booklets and a public information film series produced for the British government in the 1970s and 1980s. Radioactive contamination; Radiation ...
May 30—WILKES-BARRE — The Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) on Thursday said it will offer free potassium iodide — or KI — tablets on June 12, to Pennsylvanians who are within 10 ...
Also note that the adult dose of SSKI used for thyroid storm (thyrotoxicosis) or to loosen cough mucus, is 750 mg iodide per day (1 ml SSKI in divided doses), which is 7 or 8 times larger than the anti-radioiodine dose used in nuclear emergencies. The 100 mg iodide/150 mg KI tabs were designed for nuclear emergencies, with only this dose in ...
Little Boy had an efficiency of only 1.4%. Fat Man, which used a different design and a different fissile material, had an efficiency of 14%. Thus, they tended to disperse large amounts of unused fissile material, and the fission products, which are on average much more dangerous, in the form of nuclear fallout. During the 1950s, there was ...