The air is warm, rich with the smells of iodine, diesel, seaweed and salt.
Radioactive iodine caused thousands of cases of thyroid cancer in children after the Chernobyl accident.
And I was hit by the crossfire when someone threw radioactive iodine at someone else.
In my case, I was given lists of foods high in chlorine, iodine and iron.
Some iodine radiation-contaminated water from the site was also found to be running into the ocean.
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Radioactive iodine-131 and cesium-137 were also found in the drainage outlet of units 5 and 6.
Those hot stocks turned out to have a half-life not much longer than iodine-131's.
So iodine, which prevents goitre, is routinely added to salt and vitamins to breakfast cereals.
They said that the iodine found in the spinach was more than seven times higher.
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East African elephants routinely excavate caves to reach iodine-rich salt deposits buried in hillsides.
It doesn't hurt to have mining rights to the world's largest known deposits of nitrates and iodine.
Very low levels of radioactive iodine believed to be linked to the crippled plant have since been detected at Dounreay.
They were also less mentally developed than children of the same age who consume adequate amounts of iodine.
Most of the radioactive iodine leaves your body in your urine in the first few days after treatment.
Similar testing in other states, including California and Washington, has shown comparable levels of iodine-131 in rainwater samples.
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The iodine tang of kelp hung in the air always, and put me in mind of embalming fluid.
Iodine-131 is known to accumulate in the thyroid gland, where it can cause cancer and other thyroid diseases.
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The 39-year-old has been receiving radioactive iodine treatment since having a cyst and her thyroid gland removed in 2009.
The list includes several vitamins and inorganic minerals as common as salt and as rare as selenium or iodine.
Radioactive iodine treatment uses large doses of a form of iodine that's radioactive.
Elevated levels of radioactive iodine have also been found in neighboring prefectures of Tochigi, Gunma, Niigata, Chiba and Saitama.
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Common responses include handing out vitamin pills and fortifying common foods with micronutrients (such as putting iodine in salt).
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The pollutants that the scientists focused on were compounds containing carbon and halogens - fluorine, chlorine, bromine or iodine.
In addition, microbes hiding in saggy skin-folds can probably convert the iodine in surface mud into an absorbable form.
Commercially processed salts can taste bitter: Since WW II, iodine has been added to prevent thyroid-related diseases (such as cretinism).
Treatmentwise, Bramham advised a marine algae bath (more iodine and chlorine again) coupled with a hit of a Vichy shower.
From a public health perspective, the most important isotopes are short-lived isotopes of iodine (like Iodine-131), Cesium-137, Strontium-90, and possibly Plutonium-239.
Because the thyroid needs iodine to produce hormones, it takes up the radioiodine, which destroys the overactive thyroid cells over time.
Tokyo's governor recommended that babies be kept away from the city's tap water as it contained higher levels of radioactive iodine.
Because of the short half life of radioactive iodine (8 days), in a month or so the water should be fine again.
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