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Originally Posted by PR_Tom
The iodine risk is livestock eating grass rained on by iodine contamination, and you eating the milk or meat from the livestock. So first, you shouldnt get overly excited about that one I dont think.
This according to an expert I saw on tv anyway, who knows.
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Potassium iodine is meant to prevent radiation sickness to some degree.
Not sure this is quite such a big deal, venting off the steam that they're using to cool the units is not the same as the rods themselves being exposed to open air.
Lawrence Berkeley Labs say as well that the released radiation isn't going high enough into the air to be picked up by the jet stream as of yet either. Dispersal over the ocean is most likely with the drifting particulate.