Zaporizhzhia residents get iodine tablets amid nuclear fallout fears

Record ID: 1686625

  • Title: Zaporizhzhia residents get iodine tablets amid nuclear fallout fears
  • Date: 29th August 2022
  • Summary: ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE (AUGUST 29, 2022) (REUTERS) NURSE CUTTING TWO IODINE TABLETS FROM PACK AND GIVING THEM TO LOCAL RESIDENT, OLHA, AS ANOTHER NURSE TAKES NOTES NURSE TAKING NOTES PACK OF IODINE TABLETS ON TABLE (SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) ZAPORIZHZHIA RESIDENT, 38, OLHA (NO SURNAME GIVEN), SAYING: “I came to receive iodine tablets. In case of radiation exposure threat, we will be able to take these pills in time and we won’t suffer from any side effects. Therefore, we are grateful for organizing the distribution. We could come here and get tablets easily. Thank you!” VARIOUS OF NURSES TAKING NOTES AND DISTRIBUTING IODINE TABLETS TO WOMAN, WOMAN WALKING AWAY (SOUNDBITES) (Ukrainian) DOCTOR, LILIIA KOLESNIK, SAYING: “Since our district is located within 50-km of reach from the nuclear power plant in Enerhodar, in the area of possible radiation exposure, we are distributing iodine tablets to people, to mainly those under 40 years old. Those who are over 40 years old are not recommended to take the pills.” WOMAN GETTING IODINE TABLETS (SOUNDBITES) (Ukrainian) DOCTOR, LILIIA KOLESNIK, SAYING: “It is a preventive and prophylactic measure. One must not take the pill upon receiving it. It must be taken only after an official notification by the authorities. We started the distribution last week. Around 8,500 people received tablets, including 2,500 children.” WOMAN GETTING IODINE TABLETS
  • Embargoed: 12th September 2022 11:09
  • Keywords: eastern Ukraine nuclear disaster nuclear power plant radiation fallout
  • Location: ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE
  • City: ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE
  • Country: Ukraine
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Europe,Military Conflicts
  • Reuters ID: LVA001123729082022RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: SEE 9681 EDIT FOR FILE FOOTAGE OF ZAPORIZHZHIA NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
    With fears mounting of a nuclear accident in Ukraine still haunted by the 1986 Chornobyl disaster, Zaporizhzhia authorities handed out iodine tablets to its residents on Monday (August 29).
    Distribution of tablets started on Friday (August 26) in the city's eastern Khortytskyi district after Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was temporarily disconnected.
    Regional governor Oleksandr Starukh has told Ukrainian television that residents are being taught how to use iodine in case of a radiation leak.
    Zaporizhzhia is located 55 kilometres (34 miles) north-east from Europe's largest nuclear power plant in Enerhodar currently occupied by Russia.
    Russian artillery fired at Ukrainian towns across the river from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant overnight, local officials said on Sunday (August 28), adding to fears of a radiation disaster.
    Captured by Russian troops in March but run by Ukrainian staff, Zaporizhzhia plant has been a hotspot in a conflict that has settled into a war of attrition fought mainly in Ukraine's east and south six months after Russia launched its invasion.
    A team from the U.N. nuclear watchdog headed on Monday to the plant, the agency's chief said, as Russia and Ukraine traded accusations of shelling in its vicinity, fueling fears of a radiation disaster.
    (Production: Dmytro Smolienko, Margaryta Chornokondratenko)
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