Health Dept Unveils Radiation Plan

The Health Department is scheduled to announce a plan today to distribute potassium iodide pills to neighbors of the state's nuclear power plants. The pills keep the thyroid gland from absorbing radioactive iodines, which could be inhaled if a nuclear plant were damaged.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says the pills protected millions of Polish citizens after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986.

Residents within ten miles of the state's four nuclear power generating facilities would get the pills.

Those facilities are: the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Lacey Township; and the Salem One and Salem Two and Hope Creek stations on Artificial Island in Lower Alloways Creek.

Author: 6 ABC-AP