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WHAT TO DO IF A NUCLEAR DISASTER IS IMMINENT
- Thread starter jazzy
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The "experts" say 2 masks would be better.Just wear a mask
Look at my earlier post. The most dangerous isotope that comes out of a nuclear bomb explosion is Iodine 131, which has a half life of eight days. It will take a little over two weeks for the radiation to decay down to safe levels. That is where two weeks comes from.
Thank you.
Around here, if you're within 10 miles of a nuke plant, you get free KiO2 (Potassium Iodide) to protect from nuclear shit.
I'm 12 miles away so I have to buy my own.
I have one.... Not for those of us that can tell: "what's hot, and what's not".
Those were the days, eh??
I remember the 1950's well.
Wow! I always thought you were over 50y/o !Around here, if you're within 10 miles of a nuke plant, you get free KiO2 (Potassium Iodide) to protect from nuclear shit.
I'm 12 miles away so I have to buy my own.
On topic, don't be me:
??? Not sure what you're saying. BTW, I'm well past 50.Wow! I always thought you were over 50y/o !
If you are over 50, KI offers you no protection from radiation, so it is a non-issue.??? Not sure what you're saying. BTW, I'm well past 50.
Gotcha. Still an issue for me as my kids live on our properties and they can use it.If you are over 50, KI offers you no protection from radiation, so it is a non-issue.
My KI expired probably a decade ago. I never got more.
Of all the things that I have to be concerned about, this ranks at the very bottom of the list.
And more often than not, one wall of the classroom was glass windows. Even in 5th grade we knew that was an exercise in futility.
Ringo
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We did.
When I went to elementary school in Huntsville, AL we were not that lucky.
Every month they would do a drill and time how long it took for us to all cram into the basement.
Why? They knew we were on the top of the list because this was there.
Check out the last name on the sign:
Only after the cold-war ended, did it become the place for NASA and place exploration.
Ringo
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I grew up in San Diego, so we were on the list too. Unfortunately, there was no basement, and in fact most of my elementary school years were spent in detached bungalows used as classrooms.When I went to elementary school in Huntsville, AL we were not that lucky.
Every month they would do a drill and time how long it took for us to all cram into the basement.
Why? They knew we were on the top of the list because this was there.
Check out the last name on the sign:
Only after the cold-war ended, did it become the place for NASA and place exploration.
Say what?When I went to elementary school in Huntsville, AL we were not that lucky.
Every month they would do a drill and time how long it took for us to all cram into the basement.
Why? They knew we were on the top of the list because this was there.
Check out the last name on the sign:
Only after the cold-war ended, did it become the place for NASA and place exploration.
Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) was created on Redstone Arsenal July 1960. The Cold War ended ~ Dec. 1991 - over 30 years later. The Apollo spacecraft were heavily tested at MSFC during the mid- and late-60's.
Thank you for the correction.
I was remembering the Cuban Missile Crisis, when there were nukes within 90-miles of our country, and fallout shelters sprung up everywhere:
"The primary acute phase of the Cuban Missile Crisis ended on October 28, 1962, when Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announced that the Soviet Union would dismantle and remove its nuclear weapons from Cuba."
"The crisis lasted from 16 to 28 October 1962. The confrontation is widely considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into full-scale nuclear war."
Yes, that was real for me.
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uobirac
Time Traveler
I remember the first year or two, the row of desks closest to the windows was pushed up to the exterior wall and the students sheltered under their desks. Simultaneously the next row and the next followed suit. This would have been an effective measure for flying glass. Subsequent yeas the teachers complained about having to rearrange their classrooms. We then just crawled under our desks, which was much less effective but the teachers had less work.
A bottle of the good scotch, A bible and Crumpy.
Everything else we need will be improvised to the situation.
Everything else we need will be improvised to the situation.
I have much the same priorities but do you mind if I let you keep Crumpy and I take my wife instead?
Slant Eyed Polack
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A little off topic, but relevant. I can't recommend this book highly enough - a phenomenal narrative of the Manhattan Project. Rhodes is an exceptional writer, and it often reads like a suspense novel. His account of the commando raid on a Kraut heavy water facility is something Tom Clancy could have written. When it comes to nukes and how they work, he's able to dumb down the science so that even a maroon like me can wrap my head around it, without making me feel like an idiot. The final chapter is comprised of first hand witness accounts of the aftermath, and it's the most horrifying reading I've ever done. Go ye, and read of it.
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