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How deep underground do you have to be to avoid a nuclear bomb?
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∙ 13y ago
You can survive the fallout by being at least 6 inches below the ground. You will get third degree burns at 8 miles below the ground. Thirty miles You will probally experience great heat.
It depends on yield, height/depth of burst, distance to burst, and quantity and type of fallout at your location. Without knowing all this and performing some very complicated and somewhat approximate calculations, no specific values (like those above) can be given.
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Where can I survive nuclear war?
If you can find a very deep underground bunker that is stocked piled with many years of food and water, you may survive a nuclear war.
What is that living thing that cannot nuclear bomb destroy?
Certain types of bacteria, maybe. Especially the ones that live deep in the crust.
What are the risks and dangers of nuclear weapons?
The risk of an accidental or inadvertent nuclear launch or accidental explosion is unacceptably high. On the other hand, The B61-11 is categorized as a deep earth penetrating bomb capable of "destroying the deepest and most hardened of underground bunkers, which the conventional warheads are not capable of doing wich is good keeping civlitians for getting hurt compared to the nuclear bombs used in ww2.
How can you survive a nuclear explosion?
You can survive a nuclear explosion if you are far enough away from it for the initial heat and blast to have little or no effect on you. You then need to be deep enough underground or in a well-built shelter to avoid the radioactive fallout that would occur for days and weeks after the explosion. If you are far enough away, deep enough into a shelter, and have enough food, water, sanitation, medicine and luck, you would survive. To what end, who knows? But you'd be alive.
What are two options for spent nuclear fuel rods?
Either - re-process them into a non-harmful compound, or - bury them deep underground to decay naturally.
Is an earthquake's epicenter located deep underground?
False, the focus is located deep underground. The epicenter is at ground level
Why did British citizens hide underground in London?
Assuming you're talking about during the war - the London tube system provided an ideal shelter from the bombings - as they were deep underground.
How can a plant get water from deep underground?
It uses it its roots to suck the water up.
How do you survive atomic bombs?
In reality, the only hope is to be far away from the point of detonation. Being in a very strong structure or deep underground can help somewhat, but in the end, it all depends on how far away from where the bomb detonated you are. If you were standing outside when the bomb detonated, then: For a bomb the size of Hiroshima (10-20kT), you need to be at least 1 mile away to have a 50% chance of survival. For a typical modern advanced nuclear weapon (300-500kT yield), you would need to be at least 5 miles away to have a 50% chance of survival.
How many atomic bombs is the equivalent of 7.8 on the Richter scale?
that depends on the yield of the bombs and how well they are coupled to the ground. one bomb of sufficient yield exploded deep underground inside bedrock will do it.
Where can a vista be found?
deep underground
Why are earth's metals deep underground?
Because Asteroids Hit earth and the minerals go into the ground or get buried deep into the sea . The minerals the grow underwater and deep underground .
