RE: The Nuclear Age, and the nuclear threat
November 13, 2013 at 6:25 pm
(This post was last modified: November 13, 2013 at 6:32 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(November 13, 2013 at 6:09 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(November 13, 2013 at 5:36 pm)TheBeardedDude Wrote: That is a lot of self-induced nuclear fallout.
A bit of a quibble - underground tests do not create an appreciable amount of fallout, nor do airbursts. There are other concerns, of course, but significant fallout is not one of them.
Actually, air bursts produces quite a bit of fall out. Where do you think the fission products, unfissioned nuclear material, and neutron activated materials from the bomb goes?
Airbursts that detonate at low altitude (That's probably most of them) produces more fallout by pulverizing the ground and evaporate the water near the hypocenter, and propelling the result into the air just like a ground burst.
Underground tests have low fallout only if well conducted and resulting bomb cavity retains its integrity after the test. Cavities from many early tests subsequently collapse and in the process breach the roof of the cavity, producing delayed fallout at the site of the ground test.
