AAP Statement on Radiation Disasters and Children

["Potter, Gus" <capotte@SANDIA.GOV>]

Radsafers -- The American Academy of Pediatrics speaks out:



CHICAGO-The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that households

within 10 miles of a nuclear power plant keep potassium iodide (KI) on hand

to protect the thyroid in the event of an accidental or intentional release

of radioactive iodines ("radioiodines") into the environment. Schools and

child care facilities within the same radius also should have immediate

access to KI. It may be prudent to consider stockpiling KI within a larger

radius because of more distant windborne fallout. These are among the

recommendations the AAP is releasing to help prevent and minimize damage

from harmful levels of radiation in its new policy statement, "Radiation

Disasters and Children."



You can see the whole thing at:



http://www.aap.org/advocacy/releases/aprradiation.htm



C. A. Gus Potter, Ph.D., C.H.P.

Sandia National Laboratories

Albuquerque, New Mexico

(505) 844-2750

capotte@sandia.gov



This cause of exploration and discovery is not an option we choose; it is a

desire written in the human heart. We are that part of creation which seeks

to understand all creation. We find the best among us, send them forth into

unmapped darkness, and pray they will return. They go in peace for all

mankind, and all mankind is in their debt.

(G. W. Bush)



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