Belgium To Give Iodine Pills to All Citizens

[Still Waters]

Belgium is changing its rules to hand out iodine pills to all of its citizens because of concerns over a potential nuclear disaster.

The government's health minister has told the Belgian government to issue everyone within a 100km radius of the country's nuclear power plants with the pills, which help to limit the effect of radiation on the body.

Maggie De Block has said the pills for Belgians within a 20km radius should be extended to five times that distance in a distribution that would essentially cover the whole country.

http://www.independe...k-a7006651.html

[Sir Wearer of Hats]

That's it.

We're boned.

Incidentally, I'd rather cyanide.

No way in hell do I want to survive that.

Edited April 30, 2016 by Sir Wearer of Hats

[questionmark]

hmmmm. have they finally realized that the Doel atomic clunker's containment cracks are more dangerous than they make believe?

[Black Monk]

They're not radiation pills. They're candies of multiculturalism.

Edited April 30, 2016 by Black Monk

[+DieChecker]

Apparently they're not magic though.

http://hps.org/publicinformation/ate/faqs/ki.html

So your immune system will still be up when the rest of your body is dying of radiation poisoning.

[Crabby Kitten]

Iodine pills isn't going to protect against nuclear fallout. Radiation will contaminate most food and water.