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Sounds like something I can throw in the drawer with the Potassium Iodide pills.

(I live within 5 miles of nuke plant. After a bunch of publicity after 9/11, the county health service gave away the PI pills at nearby schools. When they asked how many live at our house I counted the dogs and two imaginary friends. Just in case some real friends are visiting when the SHTF)

I am sufficiently freaked out about retribution that I am putting together a bag to be placed in my closet so that I can leave within 5 minutes to go to my parents in Boonieville if I need to...I have to check those weather patterns again to see how it could effect me since I don't live in one of the major hot spot cities.

I advise against taking KI also for the same reasons. KI is a thyroid blocker and will only be effective for avoiding iodine injestion. Radioiodine will only be present at significant concentrations in a release plume under certain conditions, such as an inversion layer holding contaminants near the surface and almost complete failure of in-containment systems that limit iodine release (e.g., sprays, washout, and activated charcoal filters).

KI has no effect on other radionuclide. The primary radionuclides likely to be present in a release plume any signbificant distance (e.g., five miles) downwind are fission gases, the primary ones being the noble gases xenon and krypton. Those produce a submersion dose, but don't accumulate in the body. So blockers and chelating agents aren't going to be of any effect except increasing your risks because of adverse reaction to the compounds.