[blam]

"What else can one do? "

That's about it. You will be advised about your level of exposure and if you need to take potassium iodide, the government has large stocks of PI. Do not take PI without being advised to do so.

[FUSSBALL]

Any idea where one could learn more about PI. Im searching but the surfin isnt so great

[The Electrician]

Do not take PI without being advised to do so.

What possible adverse effects of PI are you warning against?

[Lucas1]

Panic people...Panic

The terrorist love this game of "lets start some dirty rumors"

Someone posted something about some radioactive material coming up from Mexico and next thing you know...it is fact.

I have to laugh at all of these posts. Where is the picture of the Sky Is Falling? This thread needs it NOW!

It is not going to happen. This is just more terror being spread by - who else - ourselves.

Bin Laden must be laughing his ass off at how terrified this nation is.

Keep posting these wild rumors people...it only helps their cause

[Tessaresopsis]

The chemical notation for potassium iodide is NOT "PI".

It is "KI"

Cheers.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

• Radioactive Iodine (Radioiodine) is a major radioisotope constituent of both nuclear power plant accidents and nuclear bomb explosions and can travel hundreds of miles on the winds.

• Even very small amounts of inhaled or ingested radioiodine can do grave damage as it will always concentrate, and be retained, in the small space of the thyroid gland. Eventually giving such a large radiation dose to thyroid cells there that abnormalities are likely to result, such as loss of thyroid function, nodules in the thyroid, or thyroid cancer. (Each year 12,000 Americans discover they have thyroid cancer, though from various assorted causes, and about 1000 die from it.)

• Chernobyl has shown, and continues to reveal, that the greatest danger from radioiodine is to the tiny thyroid glands of children. Researchers have found that in certain parts of Belarus, for example, 36.4 per cent of children, who were under the age of four at the time of the accident, can expect to develop thyroid cancer. Also, "This increase in incidence has been documented up to 500 km from the accident site."

• Health experts now estimate that the greatest health concerns affecting the largest number of people from a nuclear accident, or nuclear bomb explosion(s) anywhere in the world, will likely be from the release of radioiodine that is then carried downwind.

• The good news is that taking either Potassium Iodide (KI) or Potassium Iodate (KIO3) before exposure will saturate (fill up) a persons thyroid gland with safe stable iodine to where there is no room for later uptake of radioactive iodine. Once the thyroid is saturated, then any additional iodine (radioactive or stable) that is later inhaled or ingested is quickly eliminated via the kidneys.

• The bad news is that after Three Mile Island and Chernobyl all available KI and KIO3 supplies disappeared for months, almost overnight! The KI and KIO3 market is very thin and current limited inventory will be quickly depleted in any nuclear emergency occuring anywhere in the world. (At www.ki4u.com we expect to be 'out of business' within 24-hours of any nuclear emergency simply because we'll be totally sold-out with no illusions of getting re-supplied again any time soon!)

• Potassium Iodide (KI) and/or Potassium Iodate (KIO3) are now being stockpiled by most developed countries for future nuclear emergencies, except for here in the USA. However, very limited quantites are available for individual purchase in the USA.

• The only four KI and KIO3 formulations currently available on the market today are all here.