KI (potassium iodide) is a salt of stable (not radioactive) iodine that can help block radioactive iodine from being absorbed by the thyroid gland, thus protecting this gland from radiation injury. The thyroid gland is the part of the body that is most sensitive to radioactive iodine.
The pier will soon become the Gulf of Mexico's longest, surpassing the 1,540-foot pier opened in July at Gulf State Park.
You've got to be able to fish from it, Lawley laughed. We've got to have rules.. Like the Gulf State Park pier, Santa Rosa County's is being built to replace one destroyed in storms. Hurricane Ivan took out Gulf State Park's 875-foot-long, circa-1968 pier in 2004.