Protect & Survive in 2012

And there will be more potential for research, nuclear power plant construction, and anything else involving radiation simply because most people by default will have accepted the idea of a "safe" level of radiation. There'd be zero problem in TTL finding a place to bury the US's nuclear waste, for example. What's the difference?

I would not go as far as this, but this is a distinct possibility indeed, especially if effective counters to the negative effects of radiation are invented.
What I am talking here by counter would be some kind of "enhanced" potassium iodide pills which would provide some amount of protection from the worst effects of radiactivity on the human body.
 
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