What do you do about the strontium-90, half life of about 30 years, which will be absorbed into your teeth and bones? The way to survive is to avoid exposure in the first place.
Dose age is an intensity and time related thing. Iodine, being stored in your thyroid is concentration in an area close to your brain.
Just attempting to load up on non-isotope Iodine, so you pass the radioactive version through your digestive system with minimal absorption. Better than absorbing the wicked stuff and cancers and other bad things that go with radiation poisoning. Once you absorb the bad stuff, I don’t know how you would get rid of it. Our bodies are designed to absorb and store trace amounts
Right, but if you're inhaling radioactive iodide from a nuclear incident you're also inhaling strontium 90 which will absorb into your teeth and bones like calcium. Now, your greater risk from it is ingesting it from the water and food. Also, I'd read the warning label on that Ki stuff. They don't recommend it for people over 40, although I now take everything the CDC says with a huge grain of salt.
Learned something new, thank you.
"Sr, has a long biological half-life (approximately 7 years) and radioactive half-life (28.9 years)"
Didn't know there was a difference between biological half-life and radioactive half-life, more digging...
"The time required for a biological system, such as that of a human, to eliminate, by natural processes, half of the amount of a substance (such as a radioactive material) that has entered it."
Which is not to say that Stronium 90 is GOOD or harmless, I just had never considered biological half-life as a possible variable.
Personally, I would rather go in the blast, than suffere the effects; and as to the Second Coming - again, read about it ... would prefer to be room temperature.
You bet, I've come to the conclusion if you're caught in the fallout you're probably fucked. If you have advanced warning and get to suitable shelter you'll be just fine, barring a direct hit.
What do you do about the strontium-90, half life of about 30 years, which will be absorbed into your teeth and bones? The way to survive is to avoid exposure in the first place.
Dose age is an intensity and time related thing. Iodine, being stored in your thyroid is concentration in an area close to your brain.
Just attempting to load up on non-isotope Iodine, so you pass the radioactive version through your digestive system with minimal absorption. Better than absorbing the wicked stuff and cancers and other bad things that go with radiation poisoning. Once you absorb the bad stuff, I don’t know how you would get rid of it. Our bodies are designed to absorb and store trace amounts
Right, but if you're inhaling radioactive iodide from a nuclear incident you're also inhaling strontium 90 which will absorb into your teeth and bones like calcium. Now, your greater risk from it is ingesting it from the water and food. Also, I'd read the warning label on that Ki stuff. They don't recommend it for people over 40, although I now take everything the CDC says with a huge grain of salt.
Learned something new, thank you. "Sr, has a long biological half-life (approximately 7 years) and radioactive half-life (28.9 years)" Didn't know there was a difference between biological half-life and radioactive half-life, more digging... "The time required for a biological system, such as that of a human, to eliminate, by natural processes, half of the amount of a substance (such as a radioactive material) that has entered it." Which is not to say that Stronium 90 is GOOD or harmless, I just had never considered biological half-life as a possible variable. Personally, I would rather go in the blast, than suffere the effects; and as to the Second Coming - again, read about it ... would prefer to be room temperature.
You bet, I've come to the conclusion if you're caught in the fallout you're probably fucked. If you have advanced warning and get to suitable shelter you'll be just fine, barring a direct hit.