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Poland preps anti-radiation tablets over nuclear threat

by Agence France-Presse
September 30, 2022
in Nuclear Weapons News
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Poland preps anti-radiation tablets over nuclear threat

FILE - This Tuesday, March 15, 2011, file photo shows bottles of potassium iodide on the shelf of the Texas Star Pharmacy on Tuesday, March 15, 2011 in Plano, Texas. The Japanese nuclear crisis has reignited a debate in the U.S. over the government's role in distributing a cheap anti-cancer drug to people living around nuclear power plants. (AP Photo/Richard Matthews)

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Polish officials said Friday they had distributed anti-radiation tablets to fire departments nationwide in case of exposure triggered by the war in neighboring Ukraine, while denying there was cause for alarm.

The move came in response to fighting around Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant — Europe’s largest — which has raised fears of a nuclear disaster.

“We decided on a preventative, preemptive move to start distributing potassium iodide tablets to district fire departments,” Deputy Interior Minister Blazej Pobozy told reporters.

He said it was a routine initiative “in case of a potential radiation threat, which… at the moment does not exist.”

The tablets will be transferred to local authorities and eventually end up at distribution points — schools in most cases — where residents will pick them up if need be.

He said there were enough doses for everyone who would require them.

The medical representative at the press conference, Doctor Wojciech Zgliczynski, cautioned against taking anti-radiation tablets except when necessary.

He added that children, youths, pregnant women and breast-feeding mothers were most at risk of getting cancer from exposure to radiation.

Pobozy said the potassium iodide tablets were a preventative measure in case of a nuclear accident but would not help in response to a tactical nuclear weapon attack.

Under that scenario, “entirely different isotopes are released, ones against which there is unfortunately no tablet to protect us,” he told reporters.

He stressed however that compared to a nuclear accident, an attack was “even less likely”.

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