COVERT TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Michigan health officials are reminding people who live, work or visit within 10 miles of Palisades nuclear plant in southwestern Michigan to have potassium iodide pills on hand.
The Michigan Department of Community Health makes the pills available for free to people near the plant and the state’s other nuclear power plants.
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The pills may help prevent illnesses associated with radioactive iodine if an accident were to occur. MLive.com reports (http://bit.ly/NJaqjg ) the department issued the reminder this week.
New Orleans-based Energy Corp. owns the plant in Van Buren County’s Covert Township. Palisades has been designated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as one of the nation’s four worst-performing nuclear plants, and it’s come under increased public and federal scrutiny recently.
Entergy says it’s working to improve the plant’s safety culture.
