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Credit Pacific Service Union When he moved his family from North Jersey to Ocean County last year, Vincent Jankowski didn't give a second thought to the proximity of the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station. But yesterday, the day the state began distributing potassium iodide pills to those who live or work within a 10-mile radius of New Jersey's nuclear plants, Jankowski drove to a nearby high school to pick up his family's dosage.

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Credit First Service Union "I just came for peace of mind," he said as he left with four tablets, accompanied by his 9-year-old daughter, Lisa.

Importantly, potassium iodide that is not absorbed by the thyroid gland is quickly flushed from the system through urine.

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Card Credit Discover Service The department set up two distribution sites. Those who live near Oyster Creek in Lacey Township went to Manchester Township High School. Those who live around the Salem I and Salem II and Hope Creek stations in Salem County picked up their pills at the county's Department of Emergency Service in Woodstown.

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Credit Public Service Union By the end of the day, more than 8,000 tablets had gone out, said Dennis McGowan, a spokesman for the state health department.

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Card Credit Processing Service New Jersey received 722,000 free potassium iodide, or KI, pills from the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission in April. The state is among 14 states so far to accept supplies from the NRC, which tapped Anbex Inc. for 9 million pills marketed under the brand name Iosat.

Center Credit Service Union While the NRC has long considered KI pills a protective measure to supplement evacuation and sheltering in the event of a nuclear accident, post-Sept. 11 fears of terrorist strikes against nuclear plants have put new focus on the tablets.

Card Credit Service Wireless KI pills were credited with saving millions of Poles from thyroid cancer after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The Soviet Union, where KI pills were not distributed, suffered soaring rates of thyroid cancer.

Credit Security Service Union If taken soon before or after exposure to a nuclear plume, potassium iodide blocks the thyroid from absorbing radioactive iodine, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Credit Report Service But radioactive iodine makes up a minute fraction of a radioactive plume, officials said. That's why officials stressed that evacuation is the key to a nuclear emergency response.

Blogspot Com Christian "These tablets are specific antidotes only for shielding the thyroid," said Clifton R. Lacy, the state commissioner of Health and Senior Services. "Not the whole body."

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Credit Federal Service Union One such reception area would be Manchester Township High School, which is why health officials decided to distribute the tablets there yesterday. "This teaches people where to go in the remote possibility of such an event," Lacy said.

Credit Monitoring Service KI pills also are available over the counter or on the Internet through Anbex, Lacy said. While many pharmacies in New Jersey do not stock KI pills, the state health department has been encouraging them to do so, Lacy said.

Credit Division Service In Ocean County, the pills are being distributed to people who live in 18 towns around the Oyster Creek plant.

Card Credit Online Service At Manchester High yesterday, residents went through several stations to obtain their pills. They showed identification, filled out forms stating the number of people in their household, received instructions and asked questions of staff from the health department, the Department of Environmental Protection and the State Police.

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Card Credit Fleet Service Residents received the pills in envelopes marked "Potassium Iodide (KI) for Nuclear Emergency: DO NOT take unless instructed by a public health official." They were told to follow the dosage regulations set by the Food and Drug Administration.

Card Consolidation Credit Cari Boggiano, 30, of Ocean Gate arrived with her two sons to pick up their pills. She came at her mother's urging, she said.

Credit Free Online Report She's lived in the area her whole life, she said, and has always been slightly nervous about the plant. "I feel like it's better to have something than nothing," she said as she left.

Credit Federal First Service More distributions are scheduled for this month: Wednesday at Pinelands Regional High School in Little Egg Harbor, from 4 to 8 p.m.; July 24 at Bridgeton High School, from 4 to 8 p.m.; and July 27 at both Manchester High School and the Salem County Department of Emergency Service, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Consumer Credit Service By Paula Saha
Star-Ledger - 7/14/2002

Topic: Nuclear

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