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Please share a tip on how people can better manage coping with nuclear or radioactive releases.
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Ignore: Add iodized salt to your diet, to displace radioactive isotopes which can cause thyroid cancer.
Answered 6/12/2017
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Ignore: Get far away from the source. Radiation intensity drops off by the square of the distance.
Answered 4/21/2017
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