Time to buy your own radiation detector? We don’t think so, but you can go to Amazon and find the geiger-counter that’s right for you. The damaged nuclear power facilities in Japan have a lot of people looking into things like radiation meters. This popular supplier isn’t taking any new orders until they fill the requests they have. Meanwhile, even here in Chicago, people are snapping up iodine tablets. They fill your thyroid with good iodine, so radioactive iodine isn’t absorbed into your thyroid….if any radiation ever got to the Midwest. You’re cautioned that taking iodine can be risky and to check with your doctor . There has been a shortage of iodine in the world for some time now…so this latest event is really drying up supplies…and prices are going up.