Romania will distribute iodine tablets due to the risk of a nuclear incident in Ukraine

Romania will distribute iodine tablets due to the risk of a nuclear incident in Ukraine

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“They should not be taken preventively”he insisted, and announced the launch of a information campaign. According to Rafila, general practitioners will be in charge of distributing the doses in that European Union (EU) country whose “collective memory” is marked by the Chernobyl catastrophe in 1986

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Chernobyl.

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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) warned against the dangers of Russia-Ukraine conflict since the first day of the Russian military offensive, on February 24. Being the first war to be waged in a country endowed with vast nuclear complexesincluding 15 reactors.

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Ukraine.

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Iodine tablets are intended for prevent thyroid cancer in case of radioactive emissions caused by a nuclear accident. saturated with stable iodinelike a sponge, the thyroid gland can no longer bind radioactive iodine, which can then be quickly eliminated in the urine.

The pills must be administered solely on the instruction of the authoritiesone hour before exposure to radioactivity and no later than 6 to 12 hours thereafter, within 20 kilometers of the site of a nuclear incident.

Source: Ambito

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