Whats Required for Nuclear Sheltering?
For locations in or close to probable targets, then protection from blast, fire and fallout would be required. For all other areas, more than 95% of the country, then only fallout need be of concern. Blast and fire protection require hardened, usually below ground structures, but even simple expedient backyard earthen shelters providing 15 psi integrity are survivable as close as 2 miles from a 1 MT surface blast. These home built and also prefab ready-to-bury blast shelters, that would survive the blast even closer to ground zero, are detailed later below. For fallout protection, which will concern the greatest number of people, both those surviving within the blast zone and the much larger numbers downwind, perhaps for hundreds of miles, there is some very good news amongst all this. Radioactive fallout is dangerous because it is giving off so much energy, but that also means it’s quickly becoming less dangerous over time as it exhausts itself. In a very high fallout area close to gr
For locations in or close to probable targets, then protection from blast, fire and fallout would be required. For all other areas, more than 95% of the country, then only fallout need be of concern. Blast and fire protection require hardened, usually below ground structures, but even simple expedient backyard earthen shelters providing 15 psi integrity are survivable as close as 2 miles from a 1 MT (1000 kilotons) surface blast. These home built and also prefab ready-to-bury blast shelters, that would survive the blast even closer to ground zero, are detailed later below. For fallout protection, which will concern the greatest number of people, both those surviving within the blast zone and the much larger numbers downwind, perhaps for hundreds of miles, there is some very good news amongst all this. Radioactive fallout is dangerous because it is giving off so much energy, but that also means it’s quickly becoming less dangerous over time as it exhausts itself. In a very high fallout
