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Iodine pills and bunkers: Is France ready for nuclear war?

Surveillance camera footage of a flare landing at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine on 4 March 2022. © Zaporizhzhya NPP via Reuters

Like many European countries, France has seen an uptick in people seeking out iodine tablets and looking into bomb shelters in the face of fears of a nuclear war following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. France says it’s prepared.

French pharmacists have reported an increased demand for iodine tablets from people worried about the possibility of nuclear war with Russia, or an attack on one of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants.

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