Defense Civil Preparedness Agency closed it's 1973 Attack Environment Manual section on post-fallout shelter life with this very...optimistic...cartoon.pic.twitter.com/ieKYsiWsxa
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So in the 10 to 50 rad zone, after a week... Would any multicellular life survive in those zones?
So working backwards, for 10 R/hr after one week, that's an initial activity of something like 8,000 R/hr. For 50 R/hr, that's around 35,000 R/hr. Accumulated activity on the ground is 55K-242K R for those values. So... I'm gonna go with "probably not."
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63K R will kill all plants, full stop. At 50 K you might have some really scrubby things. Trees die much earlier than those levels. Maybe some microscopic stuff can take that level? But complex organisms, I don't think so.https://twitter.com/wellerstein/status/352145474737803264 …
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