Fortunately, an easy form of protection is potassium iodide, a simple compound typically added to table salt to prevent goiter and a form of mental retardation caused by a dietary lack of iodine.
Potassium iodide can be used to help protect the thyroid gland from radiation injury, but regular table salt doesn't contain enough iodine, according to health experts.
据卫生专家们说，碘化钾可以用于保护甲状腺免受辐射危害，但是日常使用的食盐并不包含足够的碘。
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It would take 80 tablespoons of salt to make up one prophylactic, or preventative, iodide tablet.