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Stunning aerial view of Dead Sea salt formations

STORY: Stunning aerial view of Dead Sea salt formations DATELINE: June 22, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:30 LOCATION: Jerusalem CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of Dead Sea salt formations 2. various of Dead Sea shores STORYLINE: About 30 km east of Jerusalem on the Dead Sea's northern shores, a natural phenomenon of salt formations has wowed visitors from all around the world. The Dead Sea is one of the saltiest water bodies on earth. Its water contains more than 35 different types of minerals including magnesium, calcium, potassium, bromine, sulfur, and iodine. The odd chemistry results in the appearance of salt crystal formations. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Jerusalem. (XHTV)

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Residents get iodine to prepare for possible nuke mishap

KARATSU, Japan - Residents in Karatsu, Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan, receive iodine tablets from pharmacists on Sept. 28, 2014, in preparation for a possible accident at Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Genkai nuclear power plant located nearby.

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Mock briefing for post-nuke mishap supply of iodine tabs

TOKYO, Japan - The Nuclear Regulatory Authority holds a second mock briefing session in Tokyo on July 30, 2014, for local government officials on the distribution of iodine tablets to residents in case of a nuclear accident.

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Briefing on stable iodine distribution in Kagoshima Pref.

SATSUMASENDAI, Japan - Residents near the Sendai nuclear power plant are briefed about the distribution of stable iodine tablets in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on July 22, 2014. The tablets will be distributed to people residing within 5 kilometers of the plant.

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Niigata official meets press over iodine tablets scandal

NIIGATA, Japan - Yasumasa Mizusawa, a senior official in charge of pharmaceutical affairs of the Niigata prefectural government, meets reporters about a scandal over stable iodine tablets at the prefectural government office building in Niigata City on April 22, 2014. The prefecture failed to prepare the tablets for residents near the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station by the end of March 2013 as planned in preparation for emergencies but received the state subsidy.

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Iodine tablets scandal in Niigata Pref.

NIIGATA, Japan - Samples of iodine tablets such as the Niigata prefectural government failed to purchase for residents near the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station by the end of March 2013 as planned in preparation for emergencies are shown in this undated file photo. The prefectural government's document shows the tablets were purchased and the state had provided a subsidy of about 8 million yen.

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Iodine tablets help prevent thyroid cancer

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows iodine tablets to prevent thyroid cancer after radiation exposure. The nuclear disaster mitigation guidelines revised by Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority on June 5, 2013, stated people living within a 5-km radius of a nuclear power plant should be given a supply of iodine tablets so they can promptly take the pills after an accident occurs.

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Explosion at French nuclear facility

CODOLET, France - An official of the Codolet village in Gard, southern France, shows packages of iodine in stock at the village office on Sept. 13, 2011. A furnace exploded the previous day at a nuclear waste treatment facility, known as the Marcoule site, located about 2 kilometers from the village. One person was killed, but no radioactive material leaked out.

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Fukushima Pref. to check radiation levels in fish

IWAKI, Japan - Fishery industry personnel collect a sample of young sand lance off Shioyasaki Lighthouse in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, to check radioactivity levels on April 7, 2011. High levels of radioactive iodine-131 were detected in young sand lance caught off neighboring Ibaraki Prefecture after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Safe water for children

TOKYO, Japan - Toddlers hold drinking water in plastic bottles distributed by the authorities at a daycare center in Tokyo on March 24, 2011. The Tokyo metropolitan government the same day began distributing 240,000 plastic bottles of drinking water for infants under the age of 12 months in the wake of the discovery March 22 that water at a water purification plant for tap water in Tokyo contained radioactive iodine at levels higher than allowed for infants. Radioactive materials apparently had fallen from a nuclear plant in Fukushima Prefecture crippled by a massive earthquake and tsunami.

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Safe water for children

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on March 24, 2011, at a Tokyo daycare center shows drinking water in plastic bottles distributed by the local authorities. The Tokyo metropolitan government the same day began distributing 240,000 plastic bottles of drinking water for infants under the age of 12 months in the wake of the discovery March 22 that water at a water purification plant for tap water in Tokyo contained radioactive iodine at levels higher than allowed for infants. Radioactive materials apparently had fallen from a nuclear plant in Fukushima Prefecture crippled by a massive earthquake and tsunami.

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Safe water for children

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on March 24, 2011, at a Tokyo daycare center shows drinking water in plastic bottles distributed by the local authorities. The Tokyo metropolitan government the same day began distributing 240,000 plastic bottles of drinking water for infants under the age of 12 months in the wake of the discovery March 22 that water at a water purification plant for tap water in Tokyo contained radioactive iodine at levels higher than allowed for infants. Radioactive materials apparently had fallen from a nuclear plant in Fukushima Prefecture crippled by a massive earthquake and tsunami.

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Drinking water for infants

TOKYO, Japan - Cases of bottled water are shipped out from a warehouse to municipal offices in Tokyo for children under 1 year old on March 24, 2011, as water with radioactive iodine levels over the limit for infants to drink has been found at several waterworks in the vicinity.

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Tokyo water not for infants

TOKYO, Japan - A customer buys a lot of bottled water in Tokyo on March 23, 2011, after the metropolitan government warned that infants should not drink tap water in Tokyo's 23 wards and five of its suburban cities following the detection of radioactive iodine exceeding the limit for them in water at a purification plant. The customer's face and number of the car have been obscured.

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Japan nuclear crisis fans worries

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - A woman purchases iodine at a pharmacy in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East on March 15, 2011, as a precaution for possible radiation exposure after hearing news that radioactive substances were detected in Japan following trouble at a quake-hit nuclear power plant.

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Disaster drill for nuclear power plant accident

A drone is flown off Mihama in Fukui Prefecture, central Japan, on Nov. 5, 2022, to simulate the transportation of iodine during a government disaster drill based on the scenario of a loss of electric power to the No. 3 reactor at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Mihama nuclear power plant.

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Disaster drill for nuclear power plant accident

A drone is flown in Mihama in Fukui Prefecture, central Japan, on Nov. 5, 2022, to simulate the transportation of iodine during a government disaster drill based on the scenario of a loss of electric power to the No. 3 reactor at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Mihama nuclear power plant.

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Disaster drill for nuclear power plant accident

A drone is flown off Mihama in Fukui Prefecture, central Japan, on Nov. 5, 2022, to simulate the transportation of iodine during a government disaster drill based on the scenario of a loss of electric power to the No. 3 reactor at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Mihama nuclear power plant (seen in the background).

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Disaster drill conduced at Ikata nuke power plant in western Japan

A resident (far R) of Ikata in the western Japanese prefecture of Ehime receives a stable iodine tablet during an evacuation drill simulating a severe accident at Shikoku Electric Power Co.'s Ikata nuclear plant on Nov. 9, 2015. The plant's No.3 reactor is expected to resume operations next year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Niigata residents get iodine pills to prepare for nuclear mishap

Residents of Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, northwestern Japan, receive potassium iodine pills on Sept. 17, 2015, that will mitigate the risk of thyroid cancer in the event of a nuclear disaster. Iodine pills were distributed to 320 residents on the first day out of some 20,000 people living within 5 kilometers of Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chugoku Elec. installs filter at Shimane nuclear plant

Chugoku Electric Power Co. on April 27, 2015, shows the installation of a filter, capable of filtering organic iodine, at the Shimane nuclear power station's No. 2 reactor in Matsue. The filter vent system is expected to be completed within the first half of the 2015 fiscal year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Explosion at French nuclear facility

CODOLET, France - An official of the Codolet village in Gard, southern France, shows packages of iodine in stock at the village office on Sept. 13, 2011. A furnace exploded the previous day at a nuclear waste treatment facility, known as the Marcoule site, located about 2 kilometers from the village. One person was killed, but no radioactive material leaked out. (Kyodo)

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Fukushima Pref. to check radiation levels in fish

IWAKI, Japan - Fishery industry personnel collect a sample of young sand lance off Shioyasaki Lighthouse in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, to check radioactivity levels on April 7, 2011. High levels of radioactive iodine-131 were detected in young sand lance caught off neighboring Ibaraki Prefecture after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. (Kyodo)

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Drinking water for infants

TOKYO, Japan - Cases of bottled water are shipped out from a warehouse to municipal offices in Tokyo for children under 1 year old on March 24, 2011, as water with radioactive iodine levels over the limit for infants to drink has been found at several waterworks in the vicinity. (Kyodo)

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Safe water for children

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on March 24, 2011, at a Tokyo daycare center shows drinking water in plastic bottles distributed by the local authorities. The Tokyo metropolitan government the same day began distributing 240,000 plastic bottles of drinking water for infants under the age of 12 months in the wake of the discovery March 22 that water at a water purification plant for tap water in Tokyo contained radioactive iodine at levels higher than allowed for infants. Radioactive materials apparently had fallen from a nuclear plant in Fukushima Prefecture crippled by a massive earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Safe water for children

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on March 24, 2011, at a Tokyo daycare center shows drinking water in plastic bottles distributed by the local authorities. The Tokyo metropolitan government the same day began distributing 240,000 plastic bottles of drinking water for infants under the age of 12 months in the wake of the discovery March 22 that water at a water purification plant for tap water in Tokyo contained radioactive iodine at levels higher than allowed for infants. Radioactive materials apparently had fallen from a nuclear plant in Fukushima Prefecture crippled by a massive earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Safe water for children

TOKYO, Japan - Toddlers hold drinking water in plastic bottles distributed by the authorities at a daycare center in Tokyo on March 24, 2011. The Tokyo metropolitan government the same day began distributing 240,000 plastic bottles of drinking water for infants under the age of 12 months in the wake of the discovery March 22 that water at a water purification plant for tap water in Tokyo contained radioactive iodine at levels higher than allowed for infants. Radioactive materials apparently had fallen from a nuclear plant in Fukushima Prefecture crippled by a massive earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo water not for infants

TOKYO, Japan - A customer buys a lot of bottled water in Tokyo on March 23, 2011, after the metropolitan government warned that infants should not drink tap water in Tokyo's 23 wards and five of its suburban cities following the detection of radioactive iodine exceeding the limit for them in water at a purification plant. The customer's face and number of the car have been obscured. (Kyodo)

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Radiation in Tokyo water

TOKYO, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a water purification plant in the Kanamachi district of Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on March 23, 2011. The Tokyo metropolitan government warned the same day that infants should not drink tap water as radioactive iodine exceeding the limit for them was detected in water at the purification plant. (Kyodo)

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Radiation in Tokyo water

TOKYO, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a water purification plant in the Kanamachi district of Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on March 23, 2011. The Tokyo metropolitan government warned the same day that infants should not drink tap water as radioactive iodine exceeding the limit for them was detected in water at the purification plant. (Kyodo)

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Japan nuclear crisis fans worries

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - A woman purchases iodine at a pharmacy in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East on March 15, 2011, as a precaution for possible radiation exposure after hearing news that radioactive substances were detected in Japan following trouble at a quake-hit nuclear power plant. (Kyodo)

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Residents get iodine to prepare for possible nuke mishap

KARATSU, Japan - Residents in Karatsu, Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan, receive iodine tablets from pharmacists on Sept. 28, 2014, in preparation for a possible accident at Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Genkai nuclear power plant located nearby. (Kyodo)

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Mock briefing for post-nuke mishap supply of iodine tabs

TOKYO, Japan - The Nuclear Regulatory Authority holds a second mock briefing session in Tokyo on July 30, 2014, for local government officials on the distribution of iodine tablets to residents in case of a nuclear accident. (Kyodo)

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Local gov'ts give iodine tablets to residents

SATSUMASENDAI, Japan - Photo taken July 27, 2014, shows iodine tablets that the Kagoshima prefectural and Satsumasendai city governments started the same day handing out to residents living within 5 kilometers of an offline nuclear power plant that may restart in the fall. Iodine tablets can help protect thyroids from radiation. (Kyodo)

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Local gov'ts give iodine tablets to residents

SATSUMASENDAI, Japan - Residents of Satsumasendai city, Kagoshima Prefecture, gather to receive iodine tablets from the city government on July 27, 2014. The Kagoshima prefectural and Satsumasendai city governments started handing out iodine tablets, which can help protect thyroids from radiation, to residents living within 5 kilometers of an offline nuclear power plant that may restart in the fall. (Kyodo)

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Briefing on stable iodine distribution in Kagoshima Pref.

SATSUMASENDAI, Japan - Residents near the Sendai nuclear power plant are briefed about the distribution of stable iodine tablets in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on July 22, 2014. The tablets will be distributed to people residing within 5 kilometers of the plant. (Kyodo)

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Disaster drill at Tomari plant

People join a two-day emergency drill at Hokkaido Electric Power Co.'s Tomari nuclear plant in the northern Japan town of Kyowa on Nov. 14, 2016. People living near the plant received iodine preparation to prevent thyroid exposure. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Disaster drill at Tomari plant

People join a two-day emergency drill at Hokkaido Electric Power Co.'s Tomari nuclear plant in the northern Japan town of Kyowa on Nov. 14, 2016. People living near the plant received iodine preparation to prevent thyroid exposure. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Disaster drill at Tomari plant

People join a two-day emergency drill at Hokkaido Electric Power Co.'s Tomari nuclear plant in the northern Japan town of Kyowa on Nov. 14, 2016. People living near the plant received iodine preparation to prevent thyroid exposure. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo