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When in Belarus, our goal is to minimize exposure. It's impossible to avoid exposure 100%, so we do our best this way:
We take our own food - non pershishables like dried fruits, nuts, camping food, energy bars, etc...
Bottled water is brought in on convoys from Ireland and neighboring European countries, so "clean" water is available to us there. Bottled water is used for drinking, cooking, making tea/coffee, instant meals, brushing teeth and simple sponge baths.
Many of us don't shower or shower only once, and quickly. The goal is to not ingest any of the water - by mouth, eyes, ears and nose.
When we venture outside, if it's a windy day where dust and debris is being picked up by the wind, we are advised to conver our nose, mouth and eyes to reduce exposure, inhalation and ingestion of radioactive elements present in the airborne dust and debris.
If sirens should alarm us to a potential threat of nuclear activity, many of us carry postassium iodide to protect our thyroid gland - a most vulnerable gland in the body.
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