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Medium shot of woman looking at pill bottle next to pharmacy worker zoom into pill bottle2. Close up of Iodoral, Iodine/Potassium Iodine supplement 3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tammy Lahutsky, customer stocking...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003ePlano, Texas - 15 March 2011\u003cbr/\u003e1. Medium shot of woman looking at pill bottle next to pharmacy worker zoom into pill bottle\u003cbr/\u003e2. Close up of Iodoral, Iodine/Potassium Iodine supplement \u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tammy Lahutsky, customer stocking up on iodine supplements:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I feel strongly that there is a high likelihood that we will have radiation coming from Japan.\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. Medium shot of Lahutsky paying at register\u003cbr/\u003e5. Close up of Iodoral on till screen, tilt up to pharmacy workers\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Doctor Steven Harris, Dallas Health Department\u003cbr/\u003e\"When people overreact they do things that don't make sense, and in this case stockpiling medication does not make sense.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Medium shot of Harris looking at papers at his desk\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Doctor Steven Harris, Dallas Health Department\u003cbr/\u003e\"What we hear about going on in Japan with the nuclear reactor really should have very little if any health impact on people living in the continental US.\"\u003cbr/\u003eByron, Illinois - 15 March 2011\u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide shot of smoke coming from nuclear power plant\u003cbr/\u003e10. Close up of smoke\u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide shot of smoke from nuclear power plant seen from back of house zoom into smoke\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE: (English) vox pop, June Hockison, Byron Resident\u003cbr/\u003e\"I actually find the steam and everything very tranquil, it's so quiet, and we actually come out and depending on the weather patterns it creates different clouds and stuff, and it's kind of cool to watch actually.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Pull out of smoke coming out of chimney to horse nearby \u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: (English) vox pop, Dorothy Gilroy, Byron Resident\u003cbr/\u003e\"It makes you wonder but what are you going to do, you can't do anything about what's already started.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. Wide of chimney\u003cbr/\u003e16. Pan up from chimney to top where smoke is coming out\u003cbr/\u003e17. Close up of Exelon Nuclear sign\u003cbr/\u003e18. Wide shot of nuclear power plant \u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE: (English) Paul Dempsey, Communication Manager, Exelon Nuclear:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The nuclear industry in the world, it's a big supplier of electricity, and in the US here about 20 percent of the power comes from nuclear generated electricity. Other countries like France gets about 75 percent of their power from nuclear.\"\u003cbr/\u003e20. Close up of smoke rising from chimney of nuclear power plant\u003cbr/\u003eSan Clemente, California - 15 March 2011\u003cbr/\u003e21. Wide shot of beach\u003cbr/\u003e22. Wide shot of nuclear plant next to beach\u003cbr/\u003e23. Medium shot of nuclear plant\u003cbr/\u003e24. SOUNDBITE: (English) vox pop, Jordan Wise, Local Resident:\u003cbr/\u003e\"And they're saying this 10-foot wall is going to hold a tsunami but I think differently. I think a tsunami is going to go right on over that wall. And that's for sure, especially if it's a big one.\"\u003cbr/\u003e25. SOUNDBITE: (English) Steve Conroy, spokesman, Southern California Edison (electricity company)\u003cbr/\u003e\"With the backdrop of the nuclear reactors which are very large structures, I'm sure it does visually look small. But it is a large structure. It is designed to meet whatever historical tsunami could be created based on what we know about the seismic activity in this area, and it's built to take on anything that may come its way.\"\u003cbr/\u003e26. Wide shot of man walking along beach next to nuclear plant\u003cbr/\u003eAs Japan's nuclear crisis was unfolding thousands of miles away, some people in the US were buying supplies of a supplement to protect themselves, in the mistaken belief that radiation from the country would reach the United States.\u003cbr/\u003eHealth agencies in California and western Canada warned on Tuesday that there was no reason for people an ocean away to suddenly stock up on potassium iodide, a supplement that can protect against just one type of radiation damage. \u003cbr/\u003ePotassium iodide, a salt also known as KI, has just one use: It shields the thyroid from radioactive iodine. It blocks no other type of radiation, and protects no other body part.\u003cbr/\u003eThe drug, either in pill or liquid form, is sold over-the-counter and is considered safe, although some people may experience allergic reactions.\u003cbr/\u003eThe pill can help prevent radioactive iodine from causing thyroid cancer, for which children are most at risk in a nuclear disaster.\u003cbr/\u003eIt is most important for children and pregnant women, because a growing thyroid is much more active and more likely to absorb radioactive iodine, but isn't considered very useful for people over age 40.\u003cbr/\u003eAnd yet some key suppliers in the US say they now have back orders and are getting panicked calls from potential customers.\u003cbr/\u003eJapan's Nuclear Safety Agency has stored potassium iodide to distribute in case of high radiation exposure, and the U.S. Navy is giving it to military crews exposed to radiation as they help with relief efforts in Japan. \u003cbr/\u003eBut government and independent experts say that Americans have little to fear from any radiation released by the damaged Japanese nuclear plant. \u003cbr/\u003e\"I feel strongly there is a high likelihood we will have radiation coming from Japan,\" said Tammy Lahutsky as she bought KI at the Texas Star Pharmacy in Plano, Texas on Tuesday. \u003cbr/\u003eShe bought six bottles for herself and a friend, anyway.\u003cbr/\u003eAlan Morris, president of Anbex Incorporated, a leading supplier, said his company had sold out of more than 10,000 14-pill packages and didn't expect more supply until April.\u003cbr/\u003eDoctor Steven Harris of the Dallas Health Department said \"When people overreact they do things that don't make sense, and in this case stockpiling medication does not make sense.\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"What we hear about going on in Japan with the nuclear reactor really should have very little if any health impact on people living in the continental US,\" he added.\u003cbr/\u003eIn Byron, Illinois, residents live with a nuclear power plant in their backyard and don't seem worried about what could happen in the United States.\u003cbr/\u003eOne local woman, June Hockson, said she found the steam from the chimneys \"very tranquil, it's so quiet, and we actually come out and depending on the weather patterns it creates different clouds and stuff, and it's kind of cool to watch actually.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe United States gets about 20 percent of its electricity from nuclear power plants.\u003cbr/\u003eSouthern California Edison officials say their plant in San Clemente, California, will shut down safely in an earthquake and that the seawall can withstand a tsunami. \u003cbr/\u003eBut with one seismic fault running about five miles out to sea and the monster San Andreas fault just a few miles inland, residents aren't so sure.\u003cbr/\u003e\"They're saying this 10-foot wall is going to hold a tsunami but I think differently. 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