Protective Clothes, Tablets Guard Against Radiation, Kelley Says
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Robert Kelley, a U.S. atomic engineer based in Vienna, says simple measures including staying indoors, taking iodide tablets and wearing long-sleeved clothes and hats will protect people in Japan if there is a major radiation leak from the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant.
Kelley worked for 30 years at the Department of Energy, and was in charge of nuclear emergency response at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He replied by e-mail to questions from Bloomberg News today.