Belgium is beginning to make iodine pills available free to its 11 million people in case of an accident at its ageing nuclear plants but said there was no “specific risk.”
The government also launches a website in the country’s official languages — French, Dutch, and German — to instruct people what to do in an emergency, as it began implementing plans announced two years ago.
Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon says his government aimed to “properly inform” the public, but said the plans were preventative.
“For now there is no specific risk with our nuclear plants,” Jambon tells Belgian broadcaster RTBF.
Pharmacies interviewed by Belgian media said they had begun receiving some of the 4.5 million boxes of 10 iodine pills — which help reduce radiation build-up in the thyroid gland — that were ordered by the government.
— AFP
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