Re: After the Nuke War - growning uncontaminated food
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Re: After the Nuke War - growning uncontaminated food GINSBERG5150 09-22-2008
Posted by GINSBERG5150 on September 22, 2008, 2:39 pm
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I have a question. Can you purify the water that has been
contaminated? boiling the water? I read that a solar still would be
needed but is it able to rid the water of toxic componets? and for
drinking would iodine "cure" the water?

Posted by Stormin Mormon on September 22, 2008, 4:05 pm
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I have a question.
CY: You can't ask questions, only flames on this group.

Can you purify the water that has been
contaminated?
CY: yes.

boiling the water?
CY: Boiling will kill microbes, won't help much with radiation.

I read that a solar still would be
needed but is it able to rid the water of toxic componets?
CY: Radioactive contamination can happen in one of several ways. Some
particles settle out, or can be filtered. Others dissolve, and need to be
held back while you distill off safer water.


and for
drinking would iodine "cure" the water?
CY: No. Iodine from the camping places will help kill microbes, will do very
little to help with radiation.




Posted by Kurt Ullman on September 22, 2008, 5:17 pm
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> and for
> drinking would iodine "cure" the water?
> CY: No. Iodine from the camping places will help kill microbes, will do very
> little to help with radiation.

Depending on the dose and all, iodine might help (marginally) lowering
the amount of radiation uptake by the thyroid. But in the great scheme
of things in a Mad Max post-nuclear world, that is probably the least of
your troubles.

Posted by Ralph on September 22, 2008, 8:57 pm
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>
>
> > and for
> > drinking would iodine "cure" the water?
> > CY: No. Iodine from the camping places will help kill microbes, will do very
> > little to help with radiation.
>
> Depending on the dose and all, iodine might help (marginally) lowering
> the amount of radiation uptake by the thyroid. But in the great scheme
> of things in a Mad Max post-nuclear world, that is probably the least of
> your troubles.

Potassium Iodate is what is used to protect the thyroid from radiation.
Why are there so many places selling it if ordinary iodine would do? I'm
pretty sure iodine won't do the trick.

Gets a million hits:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=potassium+iodide&aq=8&oq=potassi





Posted by Kurt Ullman on September 22, 2008, 9:07 pm
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nospam@noway.net (Ralph) wrote:

>
> Potassium Iodate is what is used to protect the thyroid from radiation.
> Why are there so many places selling it if ordinary iodine would do? I'm
> pretty sure iodine won't do the trick.
>
It is also possible to use high doses of regular iodine. The
theory is that the high doses of stable iodine will crowd out the
radioactive. To grossly oversimplify, if your blood is 90% stable
iodine and 10% radioactive, then the thyroid should take up the two
constituents in roughly the same percentages.
Of course, this is only a consideration to the extent that the
exposure is radioactive iodine, thus the "least of your troubles"
comment.
For those interested:
http://www.epa.gov/radiation/radionuclides/iodine.html#protectmyself

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