Maybe the Belgians know something we do n’t . The country has just determine to give everyone iodine lozenge for use in the event of atomic calamity .
The country already issued iodine lozenge to people exist within 12 miles of the country ’s nuclear power plants . But its Health Minister Maggie De Block has explain that its widening that meshwork to 60 international mile , “ in effect covering the whole country,”according to AFP .
In the outcome of a nuclear disaster , atomic number 53 pills aid abridge radioactivity build - up in your thyroid gland — the part of your body most sore to radiationaccording to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . The thyroid ca n’t differentiate the difference between stable and radioactive iodin , so the potassium iodide pills can be taken to pre - emptively “ filling ” the thyroid with safe iodine before radioactive atomic number 53 enters the organic structure .
The new insurance keep an eye on concerns that terrorist may have beenseeking to gain memory access to atomic facilitiesas part of the Brussels terror attacks . Germany has of late alsoasked Belgium to king - downits Tihange 2 and Doel 3 reactors over safety concerns .
So far Belgium has n’t acted on the request , insisting the two plants “ reply to the exacting possible safety requirements . ” But , err , better give the population iodine pills — you acknowledge , just in case .
[ AFP ]
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