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Our experimental work in patients and mice confirms the metabolic origin of these species, modulated by thyroidal function. In nuclear reactor environments, both under routine operation and during accidents, organic iodides such as [131I]CH3I have also been identified as major airborne components, often termed \u201cpenetrating iodine\u201d due to their low adsorption to conventional filters. This review compares the molecular speciation, environmental persistence, and dosimetric impact of airborne I-131 across clinical, technical, and accidental release scenarios. While routine reactor emissions yield negligible doses (&lt;0.1 \u00b5Sv\/year), severe nuclear incidents like Chernobyl and Fukushima have resulted in significant thyroid exposures. Doses from these events ranged from tens of millisieverts to several Sieverts, particularly in children. We argue that a deeper understanding of chemical forms is essential for effective risk assessment, filtration technology, and emergency preparedness. Iodine-131 exemplifies the dual nature of radioactive substances: in nuclear medicine its radiotoxicity is therapeutically harnessed, whereas in industrial or reactor contexts it represents an unwanted hazard. The same physicochemical properties that enable therapeutic efficacy also determine, in the event of uncontrolled release, the range, persistence, and the potential for unwanted radiotoxic exposure in the general population. In nuclear medicine, exhaled activity after radioiodine therapy is minute but largely organically bound, reflecting enzymatic and metabolic methylation processes. During normal reactor operation, airborne iodine levels are negligible and dominated by inorganic vapors efficiently captured by filtration systems. In contrast, major accidents released large fractions of volatile iodine, primarily as elemental [131I]I2 and organically bound iodine species like [131I]CH3I. The chemical nature of these compounds defined their atmospheric lifetime, transport distance, and deposition pattern, thereby governing the thyroid dose to exposed populations. Chemical speciation is the key determinant across all scenarios. Exhaled iodine in medicine is predominantly organic; routine reactor releases are negligible; severe accidents predominantly release elemental and organic iodine that drive environmental transport and exposure. Integrating these domains shows how chemical speciation governs volatility, mobility, and bioavailability. The novelty of this review lies not in introducing new iodine chemistry, but in the systematic comparative synthesis of airborne radioiodine speciation across medical therapy, routine nuclear operation, and severe accident scenarios, identifying chemical form as the unifying determinant of volatility, environmental transport, and dose.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijms27020590","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,6]],"date-time":"2026-01-06T15:09:36Z","timestamp":1767712176000},"page":"590","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Airborne Radioiodine: A Comparative View of Chemical Forms in Medicine, Nuclear Industry, and Fallout Scenarios"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"27","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2636-0058","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Klaus","family":"Schom\u00e4cker","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Kerpener Str. 62, 50937 Cologne, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ferdinand","family":"Sudbrock","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Kerpener Str. 62, 50937 Cologne, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6118-5182","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Thomas","family":"Fischer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Kerpener Str. 62, 50937 Cologne, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6651-7155","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Felix","family":"Dietlein","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children\u2019s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0992-6099","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Markus","family":"Dietlein","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Kerpener Str. 62, 50937 Cologne, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Philipp","family":"Krapf","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Kerpener Str. 62, 50937 Cologne, Germany"},{"name":"Forschungszentrum J\u00fclich GmbH, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Nuclear Chemistry (INM-5), Wilhelm-Johnen-Stra\u00dfe, 52428 J\u00fclich, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Alexander","family":"Drzezga","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Kerpener Str. 62, 50937 Cologne, Germany"},{"name":"Forschungszentrum J\u00fclich GmbH, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Nuclear Chemistry (INM-5), Wilhelm-Johnen-Stra\u00dfe, 52428 J\u00fclich, Germany"},{"name":"German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn-Cologne, Venusberg-Campus 1\/99, 53127 Bonn, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Bellini, P., Dondi, F., Zilioli, V., Gatta, E., Cavadini, M., Cappelli, C., Vigan\u00f2, G.L., and Bertagna, F. 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