Probabilmente sono scaduti ormai da tempo, mi chiedo solo quali fossero le circostanze quando sono stati inviati.
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di thatprickagain
Probabilmente sono scaduti ormai da tempo, mi chiedo solo quali fossero le circostanze quando sono stati inviati.
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di thatprickagain
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Immediately after Chernobyl they started storing them, and issued them in 2002.
https://www.rte.ie/archives/2017/0617/882735-iodine-tablets-issued-nationwide/
Summer 2002.
Cant remeber the exact year but im guessing around 1998- 2000.
Better than bunkers those yokes. Keep them close by for when you hear a loud bang
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2024/1214/1335973-joe-jacob-marian-finucane-iodine-tablets-national-emergency-plan-2001/
Comedy gold if you listen to the interview.
This just made me feel soooo old 🙁
During the Sellafield Paranoia of 2002 so embarrassing. I remember they were sitting beside our punt-euro conversion calculator for ages.
😂😂 I remember those yokes !
It was a PR exercise in the midst of hysteria.
Remember getting them in our house and going wft. Then reading the instructions, take 2 tablets each, 4 people in our house and only 6 tablets. Would have been a bloodbath if alquida hit sellafield
Pretty sure it was 2001, after 911 and some Anthrax scares in USA. Google Minister Joe Jacob and Iodine Tablets!
We still have a pile of these in an old sweet tin we keep forgetting about
Crap I know what they are, Im old
My memory of them is something like this.
Back in the 1980’s people were very concerned about nuclear contamination either from accidents (such as Chernobyl) or from the threat of Nuclear War. The Irish government of the time bought a bunch of iodine tablets for the populace because apparently iodine help protect against some forms of radioactive contamination. They forgot to hand them out to anyone though.
Year later someone in the press realised that the Irish Government was still sitting on stocks of these things so it became a political football. The minster of the day went all ministerial and demanded that they be issued immediately. Every house in the country got one.
They were already long past their expiry date by the time we got them.
More proof positive of the calibre of politicians we elect in this country.
Chris that is a blast from the past pardon the pun.
Blast from the past. After Chernobyl we were terrified that Sellafield nuclear power plant would blow up and kill us all, so every household got iodine tablets, which i think delay radation poisoning.
It took 9 days for the first iodine tablets post of 2025
My wife had to take these as a kid in Poland. They were dispensed in soviet-occupied countries after the Chernobyl incident. Everyone was shitting bricks.
The only reason anyone remembers Joe Jacob
It feels very tin foil hat but when things heated up in Ukraine I bought iodine in case they would be needed.
I thought more likely a nuclear plant being attacked rather than a nuclear bomb.
Sounds a little nutty but they cost almost nothing.
Fear of a Sellafield meltdown. Every member of a household was posted a pack, both my parents and my brother received a pack but I didn’t **