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 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."
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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(It's times like this that I'm glad I already have a spreadsheet with these kinds of numbers already in it! Make me seem very knowledgable, when it's really just fiddling with the "initial dose" number until the time after one week matches up right!)
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OMG 630 Gy/hr!! How did they even get that source into place?! *Also, converting ancient grandpa roentgens into 21st century units is a pain lol
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For gamma, a Roentgen is a rad is a rem so that conversion is easy. As long as you can remember "divide by 100" to get from the cgs units to the mks SI units, you're groovy.
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I won't hold it against the Olde Tyme science folk as those legacy units were accepted back then. Luckily, SI replaced them so I don't have to figure out electrical current in dry air and all that other goofy stuff lolpic.twitter.com/xINTbmHw39
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The change to the newer units happened at the same time for everybody. Only the Americans stubbornly still can't update 40 years later. That's really strange.
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Partly because our regulations are still written in them. It is so very, very unpleasantly hard to get the DOE order updated. At an operational level, regardless of the regs, we're operating on SI.
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Incidentally, I need to put one of those sources in my front yard to get rid of my grass LOL Of course it will fricassee the squirrels and turn my local birds into Wonder roasts, but at least I won't have to mow the lawn LOLpic.twitter.com/5iBdpyNSP2
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I sort of hope that gif doesn’t have any relevance to what could happen to people if there’s a nearby nuclear detonation, but from all I’ve read, I get the sense that it does.
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