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Yes. It has to do with dust (think the Great Saharan sandstorm that can blow dirt as far as US or Amazon). This is why distallation (forced evaporation) of wat

Yes. It has to do with dust (think the Great Saharan sandstorm that can blow dirt as far as US or Amazon). This is why distallation (forced evaporation) of water is a crucial skill.

defrost 2y ago
Of the > 500 above ground atomic bomb tests only a very few generated clouds of radioactive dust that travelled very far .. those were the ones detonated at ground level with "additional reactions" (eg: Castle Bravo being the obvious example). In the event of modern nuclear exchange how many ground level blasts with extended daughter cain productions will there be? Wouldn't most missiles be be preset with MiRV type targets for air burts over cities (to knock them down with the shock wave) and relatively "clean" reactions?
- egberts1 2y ago
  Airburst is something that behooves one to get a blast door to their shelter, complete with air vent connected to a reservoir of non-flammable liquid as a buffer. If outside the wood-constructed residential air blast range (16.4 miles for airburst 20Mton load), a simple plywood-reinforced wooden door will do. Chinese Civil Defense outlines using wooden poles in the A-frame over 3' deep trench then cover with 3-feet dirt. Only need to shut the door once you see a "spotlight" shining your way as its 2.4 seconds from light to the blast wave for an airburst, longer as you're further way.
xattt 2y ago
Would irradiation of the water by whatever nucleotides in the dust render the water radioactive to some extent?
- egberts1 2y ago
  Half life of radioactive oxygen (70 seconds) atom is incredibly short. Tritium (H) half-life is 12.32 years, found naturally in exosphere (highest altitude) by cosmic rays but is even incredibly rarest to be in contact with even when released by a nuclear bomb. Some antique watches uses tritium for their glowing properties and hence even rarer (banned in 1998). Tritium (H+3) can bond with oxygen to make heavy water and is easily pee'd out ones' bladder. Distillation ensures that only dust-free water molecule rises for collection and rarity of tritium is essentially a non-issue. - https://www.britannica.com/science/oxygen-group-element/Isotopes https://www.britannica.com/science/oxygen-group-element/Isot...
  - egberts1 2y ago
    Addendum, chlorinate the water to bond the iodine into iodate state before distillation.

Yes. It has to do with dust (think the Great Saharan sandstorm that can blow dirt as far as US or Amazon). This is why distallation (forced evaporation) of water is a crucial skill.

defrost 2y ago

Of the > 500 above ground atomic bomb tests only a very few generated clouds of radioactive dust that travelled very far .. those were the ones detonated at ground level with "additional reactions" (eg: Castle Bravo being the obvious example). In the event of modern nuclear exchange how many ground level blasts with extended daughter cain productions will there be? Wouldn't most missiles be be preset with MiRV type targets for air burts over cities (to knock them down with the shock wave) and relatively "clean" reactions?

egberts1 2y ago
Airburst is something that behooves one to get a blast door to their shelter, complete with air vent connected to a reservoir of non-flammable liquid as a buffer. If outside the wood-constructed residential air blast range (16.4 miles for airburst 20Mton load), a simple plywood-reinforced wooden door will do. Chinese Civil Defense outlines using wooden poles in the A-frame over 3' deep trench then cover with 3-feet dirt. Only need to shut the door once you see a "spotlight" shining your way as its 2.4 seconds from light to the blast wave for an airburst, longer as you're further way.

xattt 2y ago

Would irradiation of the water by whatever nucleotides in the dust render the water radioactive to some extent?

egberts1 2y ago
Half life of radioactive oxygen (70 seconds) atom is incredibly short. Tritium (H) half-life is 12.32 years, found naturally in exosphere (highest altitude) by cosmic rays but is even incredibly rarest to be in contact with even when released by a nuclear bomb. Some antique watches uses tritium for their glowing properties and hence even rarer (banned in 1998). Tritium (H+3) can bond with oxygen to make heavy water and is easily pee'd out ones' bladder. Distillation ensures that only dust-free water molecule rises for collection and rarity of tritium is essentially a non-issue. - https://www.britannica.com/science/oxygen-group-element/Isotopes https://www.britannica.com/science/oxygen-group-element/Isot...
- egberts1 2y ago
  Addendum, chlorinate the water to bond the iodine into iodate state before distillation.