This doesn’t make much sense to me. How much do those tablets cost? What is the expense of distributing them? What is the real chance of a nuclear accident?
The city would be better off saving its money. If people want to buy KI tablets in the event of something that is orders of magnitude less likely to happen than a plane crash, it is *their* money. But taxpayer money shouldn’t be used for this.
If the city wants to have a supply of the tablets on hand just in case that one in a billion or whatever event happens, that’s a little different. In that case, the city is not continually incurring the expense of buying the tablets.
I would think it would be something to keep on hand but not given out yearly by government. I’m guessing that this program is the result of some anti nuke group wanting to keep the “threat” in people’s minds.