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Depends mostly on where you are relative to it and the yield. Other variables include:

  • weather
  • terrain
  • your cloths
  • if you are in a building, its construction
  • were you near a window
  • etc.
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All the iron molecules that are in your body were originally created by?

nuclear fusion in a massive star that ended its life in a supernova explosion.


What would happen if a nuclear power plant is bombed?

It's essentially impossible to answer the question, as the answer depends on the size, nature, and specific location of the explosion.It's probably important to clear up a misconception here. Nuclear power plants do not explode like nuclear bombs. They simply cannot do so. There can be explosions at a nuclear plant, but these are chemical explosions like you could potentially get at any factory.The problem with an explosion at a nuclear plant is that, even though it's caused by a chemical reaction and not a nuclear one, it tends to spread radioactive material around.The worst case scenario is that radioactive material would be released into the area around the reactor... again, how large an area depends on how big the explosion is, and how bad this would be depends on part in what precise radioactives were released. For example, while the Three Mile Island accident released a considerable amount of radioactive material, several scientific studies have concluded that there were no measurable adverse health effects and that the average person within a ten-mile radius of the plant got about the equivalent radiation dose of one extra chest x-ray that year. Certain elements are more dangerous than others because of their role in the body's biochemistry... radioactive iodine and strontium, for example, are dangerous because the body concentrates them (in the case of iodine) or incorporates them into bone structure (in the case of strontium).


What would happen if you were hit by a shock from an explosion?

Depends on how severe the shockwave is- At very high energy levels, you would be thrown through the air. At extremely high levels, the air sacs in your lungs would be ruptured from the force, resulting in death. At higher levels, your body would be torn apart. A low levels, you could have your hearing damaged, be stunned.


What happens to the human body in a nuclear explosion?

Depending on the distance from the blast, the shockwave will burst all your internal organs and break bones, then in less than a second, the intense heat will cause your entire body to explode into steam/gasses in less than a half a second, leaving very little material, that will be dust. Maybe less than a teaspoon.


What happens if a nuke explodes in your face?

You won't know it as your body will have been converted to fully ionized plasma at a couple million degrees by the x-rays from the bomb in less than 100 microseconds after detonation. It would take your nerves a couple milliseconds to tell your brain about the detonation and those nerves and your brain won't exist that long.

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What are some of the effects on the human body of a nuclear explosion?

Some of the effects on the human body from a nuclear explosion are death (from thermal energy/blast effects or super lethal radiation exposure), infertility and blood disorders.


What happens to your body in the center of a nuclear explosion Do you simply turn into ash or dust Or does your body become charred?

Directly inside a nuclear explosion the temperature is several million degrees. At this temperature everything turns to plasma (highly ionized gas). You would not become ash, dust, or get charred; you would vaporize to gas and most of the electrons would be stripped from the atoms of the gas. Sometime later as this material cooled your atoms would condense out on tiny particles that had been lifted by the updraft into the mushroom cloud and you would become part of the radioactive fallout.Note, you could not be at the exact center of a nuclear explosion, as this point is inside the physics package of the device which is usually much smaller than a human.


What are the effects of EMP explosion on the body?

First of all, EMPs don't really explode like a nuclear bomb. It releases alot of energy like a nuclear bomb. EMP's do not affect the body... that much.


All the iron molecules that are in your body were originally created by?

nuclear fusion in a massive star that ended its life in a supernova explosion.


What would happen to the human body if there is no blood?

The body would die.


What would happen if all the elements were missing from your body?

Then your body would no longer exist.


What would happen if all the ribosomes in your body disappeared?

This cannot possibly happen, so asking what would happen if it did happen is an exercise in stupidity.


What would happen if everyone had a job?

No body would be jobless.


What would happen if the circulatory system failed your body?

You would die.


What would happen if your body systems did not work together?

You would die.


What would happen if your body didn't have the enzyme catalase?

we would die


What would happen if the body had no heart?

Blood would not travel through the body, nourishing and oxygenating the organs.