From the BBC SCOTLAND Website (Also broadcast on BBC Scotland
lunchtime news Mon 17 Nov 03)
Anti-radiation pills for Highlanders
Emergency berths are located in the Highlands
*More than 1,000 people living in the west Highlands are to be
issued with pills to be taken in the event of a nuclear submarine
accident.
*The potassium iodate tablets are being given to people living
near emergency berths designated for the vessels.
The move is part of new regulations governing the response to a
nuclear accident.
It will be accompanied by public meetings and a campaign of public
information in the area.
The tablets will be issued to householders around Broadford Bay in
Skye and Loch Ewe in Wester Ross by the end of January.
Potassium iodate tablets are designed to combat the effects of
radiation sickness.
They can reduce damage to the thyroid gland if they are taken as
soon as possible after exposure.
The pills will be given to anyone living within two kilometres of
the so-called z-berths, designated emergency moorings for nuclear
submarines.
Residents living near the Vulcan nuclear submarine reactor test
facility at Dounreay are already issued with anti-radiation pills.
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