If you live near any of Pennsylvania's four nuclear power plants, you will be able to get a fresh batch of potassium iodide tablets in mid August, to use in case of a radiation leak. But what are ...

The crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear power station has already prompted stores of potassium iodide tablets to run low in the United States. And even though health experts have said that there is ...

POTTSTOWN, Pa. – Montgomery County health officials gave people who live, work or go to school within 10 miles of the Limerick nuclear plant potassium iodide pills in case of an emergency. They handed ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Pennsylvania Department of Health announced that the annual statewide distribution of free potassium iodide tablets to residents who live, work, or study near one of the ...

New Jersey's Salem and Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Stations generate more than 40% of the electricity produced in the Garden State, according to its parent operator PSEG Nuclear. And it's all about ...

As Russia's assault in Ukraine intensifies, fear of radioactive fallout from accidental or intentional attacks on Ukraine's nuclear plants, or from the use of a nuclear bomb, has triggered surging ...

Households, schools and child-care centers near nuclear power plants should keep potassium iodide pills on hand to protect children from an accidental or intentional radiation release, the American ...

Wake County Health Department workers handed out potassium iodide pills in the parking lots of four schools in the area. Two tablets were distributed to each person.Many of the people that received ...

MIDDLETOWN, Pa. (AP) - The little white pills designed to protect against cancer weren't deemed necessary after the reactor meltdown at Three Mile Island, but area residents are happy to have them now ...

The good news in Japan was that the winds had been pushing the radiated plumes from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant out into the Pacific Ocean, away from populated areas. The winds ...

The latest equipment for U.S. postal workers: potassium iodide pills to protect against thyroid cancer in the event of a radiological emergency. The U.S. Postal Service said yesterday it was buying ...