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“Japan has an evacuation area of about 12 miles from the nuclear plants. Washington state is 5,000 to 6,000 miles away from Japan.”

—TIM CHURCH, a spokesman for the Washington State Department of Health, assuring the public that the risk is thought to be low that radiation released in Japan will reach the U.S. at dangerous levels. Still, suppliers of potassium iodide tablets, which can help protect people from radiation-induced thyroid cancer, say they are having trouble keeping up with demand or have run out of the drug, in part because of Americans' fears of radiation exposure. [via WSJ]

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