Radiation detectors known as Geiger counters and potassium iodide supplements sales have soared after the recent Japanese reactor disaster. Iodide supplements are proven to block some amounts of radiation and are selling out in North America especially on the west coast of the United States. Sales of Radiation Detectors are also spiking. Geiger counters can determine how much radiation a person has been infected with.
The continued increase in sales of these items has been based on the news of Japans inability to cool down their damaged nuclear reactor cores in the Fukushima power plant. The possibility of a core meltdown is driving Americans to stock up on iodine supplements and Geiger counters. The realization that nuclear waste in the form of radiation clouds coming from Japan and reaching the US west coast is causing many to panic.
Retailers are rushing to restock their supplies of iodine pills and Geiger counters while experts in the US are trying to calm the population by insisting that no harmful amounts of radiation from the Japanese reactors will reach American soil. Geiger counters are used to detect ionizing radiation (usually beta particles and gamma rays, but certain models can detect alpha particles).
