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During a nuclear explosion, matter vaporized in the resulting fireball is exposed to neutrons from the explosion, absorbs them, and becomes radioactive. When this material condenses in the rain, it forms dust and light sandy materials that resembles ground pumice. The fallout emits alpha and beta particles, as well as gamma rays. Much of this highly radioactive material then falls to earth, subjecting anything within the line of sight to radiation, a significant hazard. A fallout shelter is designed to allow its occupants to minimize exposure to harmful fallout until radioactivity has decayed to a safer level. The fallout shelters of Greenlake Did you know that Green Lake houses at least three old fallout shelters?
Uncle's Bomb Shelter is still under construction, but others have it under their house:
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A shelter to protect me from radioactive fallout? No need. I got my tin foil hat! |
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All residential and industrial buildings here in Israel are required by law to have bomb shelters. Most double as meeting rooms, playrooms and home offices. There are also community shelters every couple of blocks in the towns and cities. So my distance to a bomb shelter (when I'm not out in the wilds) is probably a couple of minutes. My high-rise apartment has a standard extra room with specially reinforced walls, windows and door. It's also sealable in case of chemical attack. The law was passed back in 1951, and unfortunately, the shelters have had to be used many times, both on the country's borders, and when Iranian Scud missiles rained down on Tel Aviv during the 1991 Gulf War. Then there was extensive property damage and whole buildings were leveled, but there were "only" three deaths (although many were injured). Needless to say, we also have air raid sirens and a very efficient gas mask distribution process. |
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I live in a very rural town, I don't think we have any fallout shelters anywhere near, I'll have to build one I guess. |
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To be honest : I have no idea. I doubt we even have one. |
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about 500m but it is just a shelter for a short time.And it is locked |
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We have a shelter just down thee road from my house incase there's bombs here. I don't know what else anyone could ever use it for. |
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I dont even know this :S i think i might google it to see were mine is :D |
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About 1200 kilometers away...I live in the middle of nowhere :) |
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It's about 52.8 miles away. I have to go to the biggest city in the state to find one of the few fallout shelters here. |
I know of several fallout shelters in the Greater Seattle Area & Eastside (Microsoft Campuses & Downtown Bellevue).