April 13, 2012 - eReleases -
Potassium Iodide Sales Surge on Heels of Large Government Order - A recent solicitation by the Defense Logistics Agency for 1,050,000 doses of Iosat Potassium Iodide has created a deluge of orders for emergency radiation products supplier Nukepills.com. Slated for troop support, the 130mg tablets provide protection against radioactive iodine in the event of a nuclear crisis. International concerns about the development of nuclear weaponry in Asia and the Middle East have also helped boost sales of the radiation drug to levels not seen in the past decade, except for last year’s Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster in Japan. "We’ve been in business 13 years and have never seen such continued levels of stockpiling of potassium iodide," stated Troy Jones, President of Nukepills.com. "Last year during the Japan crisis we sold our normal 6-month supply of stock within 4 days with most of those orders going to U.S. west coast residents. Now we are trying to keep up with this sustained demand because of North Korea and Iran. Our wholesale orders to other websites, nuclear facilities and medical centers are starting to surpass our retail sales." Many wholesale orders of Iosat are the result of this week’s viral news of the U.S. government’s request for potassium iodide for its medical chain supply. Nukepills.com also has a new 65mg Iosat Potassium Iodide tablet to add to its growing arsenal of radiation emergency products. The FDA-approved, half-strength tablet was developed as a safe and effective regimen for children. Though the current 130mg tab is scored and can be easily split for administration to children, the new Iosat-65 tab was created for ease of single unit dosing. Iosat-65 is currently restricted to overseas sales. Nukepills.com is actively seeking international distributors for this newly FDA-approved radiation drug.
April 13, 2012 - Reuters - Entergy Miss. Grand Gulf puts out fire in condenser - Entergy Corp extinguished a fire in the main condenser of its 1,251-megawatt Grand Gulf nuclear power plant in Mississippi Wednesday evening, the company told the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in a report posted on Thursday. The unit has been on a planned refueling outage since Feb. 20. The operators at the plant declared an "unusual event," the lowest of four emergency classifications by the NRC, after the fire was discovered at about 6:11 p.m. local time Wednesday. It was put out in about 40 minutes. No one was hurt. "The fire brigade was dispatched to combat the fire and the area was evacuated," Entergy stated. The cause of the fire was being investigated, the company said.
April 13, 2012 - Pottstown Mercury - NRC reveals radioactive water spill at Limerick nuke plant - "Several thousand gallons" of water containing as much as five-times the government’s "safe" level of radioactive tritium was accidentally released at Exelon Nuclear’s Limerick Generating Station last month and then flushed into the Schuylkill River, The Mercury learned Thursday. However the concentrations of contamination in the water were considered so low that they presented "no immediate health and safety concerns," according to the Nuclear Regulatory Agency, which is why the incident was not reported publicly until 23 days after it happened. It was 3 a.m. Monday, March 19 when "a manhole cover overflowed during a scheduled and permitted radiological release," according to an incident report posted on the NRC web site. "As a result, several thousand gallons of water overflowed briefly, formed puddles in the area, and was discharged" through a permitted discharge to Possum Hollow Creek, which flows from the plant grounds into the Schuylkill River," according to information from the NRC. The notification issued to the NRC by Exelon stated "several (water) samples showed increased levels of tritium that were well below permitted Commonwealth and Federal effluent limits."
April 13, 2012 - WPTZ 5 - Radioactive material from Japan found in NH - Scientists from Dartmouth College said they’ve found isotopes from the disaster in some ground and water samples. The Fukushima-Daiichi Power Plant melted down following a strong earthquake and tsunami in Japan in March 2011. While radioactive at one point, researchers said the New Hampshire findings pose no danger to the public. Researchers are now studying how the material traveled to the Northeast from Japan through the water cycle.
April 13, 2012 - Hazelwood Patch - Second Coldwater Creek Lawsuit Filed Against Hazelwood-Based Covidien and Its Mallinckrodt Division - North St. Louis County residents have filed a second lawsuit alleging that nuclear waste in Coldwater Creek, which is partially contained in the City of Hazelwood has caused their various illnesses including cancer, and for some death. Both lawsuits allege exposure to radioactive waste the Mallinckrodt chemical company produced, is the reason for the health issues. The second lawsuit includes a group of 16 people from Hazelwood, Florissant, Spanish Lake and St. Ann. According to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court on Tuesday, nuclear waste was dumped near Lambert Saint Louis International Airport and contaminated Coldwater Creek starting in the 1940s through the 1950s. The area is considered an Environmental Protection Agency Superfund site.