Citizens’ Resistance at Fermi 2 (CRAFT) will host a public meeting at the Belleville Area District Library from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 7.
The meeting will focus on the need for everyone living within a 50-mile radius of a nuclear reactor to keep on hand potassium iodide (KI) tablets to prevent the thyroid from absorbing radioactive iodide, should there be an accident.
The meeting will highlight a presentation entitled “Fermi 2, Ki, and You!” given by Keith Gunter, co-chair of the Alliance to Halt Fermi 3, the featured speaker. CRAFT is partnering with the Alliance and Beyond Nuclear, a national nuclear watchdog group, to raise public awareness of a method people can use to protect their loved ones.
DTE Electric has provided KI vouchers for people living within ten miles of Fermi, but only 5% have obtained them. Canada mails KI tablets to their citizens living within the Fermi radius. France, Ireland, Sweden, and Switzerland pre-distribute the pills to their people.
The American Thyroid Association has recommended everyone within a 200-mile radius have the tablets on hand and all government entities within a 200-mile radius stockpile them, should they be in wind direction of an accident.
For more information, contact Jessie Pauline Collins, CRAFT co-chair, at [email protected] or call (313) 766-4311.