Re: KI Inquiry -Reply

["Spell, Bill" <bills@deq.state.la.us>]

I'm not sure if this is what you're referring to, but any dose from eating 
shrimp would be normal iodine, not radioactive iodine.

Bill
bills@deq.state.la.us

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From: radsafe
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Re: KI Inquiry -Reply
Date: Friday, October 18, 1996 5:11PM

At 13:39 18.10.1996 -0500, you wrote:
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>Franz, I don't know what the dose would be from eating one or two shrimp,=
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>but I suspect it is very small.  However, it is enough to produce an=
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>reaction in SOME people......and to varying degrees, depending on the=20
>person.
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>The problems in parts of Europe are not the same as in some parts of this=
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>country.  Evacuation is frequently done in low-lying areas, such as when a=
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>hurricane approaches, and the same types of plans are used in planning for=
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>nuclear emergency.  In fact, in our state, the petrochemical industries=
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>"borrowed" evacuation plans and methods from the nuclear utilities, since=
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>the same local agencies respond to both.  It works, too.
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>These are my personal opinions, based on some observation, of course.
>
>Bill
>bills@deq.state.la.us
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I agree with you that the problems vary from country to country, =B4from
continent to continent. I do not expect any special dose from eating shrimps
(I do not know, how this came into my message). The temptation of using
existing evacuation plans might be great. In our metropolitan areas I think
that any evacuation will be a catastrophy, resulting in many casualties. The
protection of the public has been shifted somehow to very unexpensive
countermeasures (like taping the windows to prevent aerosols to enter, to
gather in the cellars of houses...) The dose saved in the case of a nuclear
accident has a very good cost-benefit ratio. The administration of KI will
be only necessary in the case of a very severe accident - depending on the
reactor type - and at least in some European countries the emergency plans
include distribution of KI to the public in a certain distance from the
power plant. I hope that I did not sound to be in favour of a distribution
to everyone.=20

Franz
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