Your, um, in case of nuclear power plant meltdown emergency potassium iodide is free.

Pennsylvania Health Department Distributing Potassium Iodide to People Living, Working Near Nuclear Power Plants

Previously Distributed Tablets Expire Aug. 31; New Tablets Available Beginning Sept. 1

HARRISBURG, Pa., Aug. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Department of Health will provide free potassium iodide, or KI, tablets to people who live or work within a 10-mile radius of Pennsylvania's five nuclear power plants beginning next month.

The KI tablets that were distributed previously by the commonwealth will expire on Aug. 31 and should be discarded in the trash. The pills should not be used after the expiration date.

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The public is reminded to not take KI during a test of the Emergency Alert System or during a test of the sirens located near nuclear power plant sites. Residents should only take the pills when directed to do so by the Governor or state public health officials.

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How reassuring...

Let me guess, vaccuum cleaners for lung tissue?

You know, the kind that doesn't require an accident but takes place under normal conditions?

The fact is kiddie, neither you nor any other fundie anti-nuke faith give a rat's ass how many people die every day from PM-10 pollution.

Rather than face the fact that the rate of air pollution deaths http://www.who.int/entity/quantifying_ehimpacts/countryprofilesebd.xls">numbered nearly 2,300,000 in 2003 alone will not provide you with the moral fortitude or arithmatic insight to elevate these real deaths to the special plane reserved for your dumb fantasies.

The number of dumb fundie anti-nukes who can do math is the same as it was 5 years ago, zero.

If a dumb fundie could be taught math, they would recognize that air pollution wipes out the population of Harriburg, roughly 50,000 people who - irrespective of dumb fantasies - are all still living, every 8 days.

Dumb. Fundies. Couldn't. Care. Less.

In their bizarre calculus, one imaginary death is worth 2,300,000 real deaths.

How come I never hear from a dumb fundie anti-nuke about banning oil because of the Piper Alpha disaster or Texas City or banning hydroelectric because of Banqiao, but everyone of them can spout illiterately about some dumbass fantasy that Harrisburg and Kiev no longer exist?

Nuclear energy does not need to be perfect to be vastly superior than all the stuff that dumb fundies don't care about. It merely needs to be better than everything else, which, um, it is.

Second, my anti-nuke position is not an endorsement of coal or oil or even hydro.

Next, your promotion of nuclear doesn't seem to reflect on the pollution that results from the mining and processing of uranium, let alone dealing with spent rods and the construction and decommissioning of plants. What are those environmental costs? If you've factored that, please share and accept my apology.

And while I've seen you decry reference to Chernobyl because it was of an alleged inferior Soviet design, you expect me to be impressed with a story about a poorly engineered and constructed failed Chinese dam that was built primarily for flood control (and modified with Soviet advice).

Not the kind of scientific rigor you'd want to be noted for, I'm sure.

Whatever your relationship with the other members of this forum, I'll hope you will spare me insult-laden posts going forward.