A study has found that acetylated resveratrol can protect cells exposed to radiation and help prevent death. Resveratrol can be found in many places, including your local health food or drugstore, but I am not sure how or in what dose you would combine it with acetyl if you were trying to duplicate these effects.
Would n-acetyl-cysteine work? Acetyl-l-carnatine?
I have no idea. Be advised.
But given how many of the world's nuclear plants are built in earthquake zones, or are otherwise threatened by everything from major civil disorder to rising sea levels, this seems to be information well worth knowing. And the question I raised above, well worth answering.
Updated by Dry Observer at Sun Mar 20, 2011 at 12:22 AM PDT
It seems that acetylation is being done to resveratrol before consumption (not really a surprise). The references to it in news articles imply that acetyl merely enhances the effects of the resveratrol, but I have no idea if that is true or simply an interpretation. And I have yet to see anything on dosage, despite the very large number of articles discussing this study since at least 2008.