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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: tp4tissue on Fri, 11 August 2023, 12:25:28
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This is the latest Fal10ut contamination map for the U.S. atmospheric nu(1ear weapons tests (1945-1962) (Princeton SGS, 2023)
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The most popular fall0u7 map from 1951, US gobahment.
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THIS, is today's FIRE RISK map. Most of those areas already have sizable fires going by this time of year.
What is little talked about in the news, is that TREES soak up fa11out rad1ati0n and burning them revolatizes what scientists refer to as H0T parti(les. That is to say Forest Fire Smoke is very much rad10logical. Firefighters can be exposed to 10-20 years worth of nv(lear worker rad1a7ion in a matter of hours fighting forest fires.
If anyone is living close, downwind of these areas. Make sure to run an air purifier.
Do not take iod1ne, that only singularly protects the thyr01d (organ) from initial contam1nati0n of fast de(aying iod1n3 atoms, it doesn't help whatsoever for the long live nu(leids the trees soaked up, such as (es1um.
Don't Panic, we're all breath it. No one gets left out.
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I grew up 100 miles downwind from ORNL (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) and my father was convinced that it would be a primary target for the Soviets during the Cold War, so he built a bomb shelter in our basement. The late-1950s-early-1960s were a strange time - the birth of the Space Age in the depths of the Cold War.
As I recall, the idea was that we were supposed to be able to live down there for 2 weeks and then come out. Not sure where that time interval came from ....
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Survival shelters are good for a short term hurricane or local extreme weather, perfectly reasonable.
But in the event of societal collapse, without active maintenance, the rad10logi(al con7aminat1on from an infrastructure failure cascade would make surface life impossible for large animals for 10s of thousands of years at the very least.
We have ~100,000 metric tons of waste in US, and nearly all of it needs some degree of active maintenance and security.
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As I recall, the idea was that we were supposed to be able to live down there for 2 weeks and then come out. Not sure where that time interval came from ....
The idea was that you could safely venture out for limited times between waves of radioactive fallout clouds, come out and do what exactly was never really addressed.
There's a movie that sort of goes into what to expect called "The Day After" (1983), it's an old made for TV movie so it's dated and low budget but it was on point enough that it steered Ronald Reagan's nuclear policy while in office.
As bleak as the movie is it actually paints a rosy picture of how bad it would be and never even addresses long term survivablity, which we now know would be impossible.
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Great Interview with Dr. He1en Cald1c0tt whose 1-on-1 conversation with Reagan stopped the nu(lear suicide america almost committed.
Founder of the Nobel Peace Prize winning, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.
Easily among the most pivotal-Women to have ever live.