what is your closest Nuclear target.......

[grayghost668]

is it a silo a military base airport or a nuclear power plant,,,,,,I have a nuclear plant about 40 miles away,if it were to get hit without a bunker I am screwed

 

[WGregMiller]

Nuclear plant 15 miles. US Army missile command about 30 miles. Screwed either way.....

 

[WGregMiller]

Also, in retrospect, if nukes fly, I hope I'm standing under where the first one blows......

 

[Maverick]

The nearest major targets are Ft. Lewis home of the 75th RANGER 2nd BN and the Trident boomers Naval base plus Mcchord air base 168 miles north of me plus a air base in Eastern Washington, no nuclear power plant.

 

[grayghost668]

Also, in retrospect, if nukes fly, I hope I'm standing under where the first one blows......

I don't have a death wish,,,I have plans in the works for basement home complete with a concrete roof,it is not huge only around 1100 sf ,,,with luck I will get it built and never need it

 

[WGregMiller]

We all hope you don't my friend...

 

[grayghost668]

We all hope you don't my friend...

the place will be cool in the summer and hopefully warm in the winters with the front facing north,I have the location for the build all picked out and once complete all anyone will see is a shop building,,,,facing north is so it is obscured from the road,,,I may go solar power on it,,,,,

also the facing north is so that if the plant is ever hit the front of the house is not facing the shock wave,I under stand it can reach as far as 50 miles

 

[WGregMiller]

We're working on planning our 'retirement' spot, also at our current BOL. We're thinking about ICFs for the walls. A foot thick overall, about 9 inches of concrete in the wall. My experience with them tells me that if I can pull this off, heating and cooling is going to be easy.

 

[jontte]

well,let's see, power plant 90 klicks away, military base 10 klicks away,navy base 8 klicks away,that's about it.

 

[Brent S]

We're working on planning our 'retirement' spot, also at our current BOL. We're thinking about ICFs for the walls. A foot thick overall, about 9 inches of concrete in the wall. My experience with them tells me that if I can pull this off, heating and cooling is going to be easy.

I built a root cellar here. It's filled block walls, with poured roof and buried on three sides and the roof. It stays amazingly cool all summer long. I'm sure it will be consistently warmer in the winter too. The only issue is moisture build up. You have to have air flow, which looses some of the thermal gains. My cellar is only 8x10' and was kind of an experiment for the next place I build too. I want a small cabin, probably 12x 36', but with a full basement and a poured roof. That will double the usable space.

 

[grayghost668]

after looking at a map of nuclear targets no one is getting away clean every state has multiple targets damned few people will be ready and less than 10% of the population will survive a all out Nuclear War,,,,,,,,,

 

[Maverick]

after looking at a map of nuclear targets no one is getting away clean every state has multiple targets damned few people will be ready and less than 10% of the population will survive a all out Nuclear War,,,,,,,,,

Far more people will survive than 10%, the body can absorb a certain amount of RADs an hour before acute poisoning takes hold. If one stays indoors for 10 to 14 days, after that period of time one can venture out for a short times limiting exposure, everything is in the time of exposure generally referenced in hours, radiation doesn't stay in the body and in many cases people have survived acute poisoning without permanent damage. Remember, all the numbers out on the internet and in government books are hypothetical (worse case). If one isn't affected by the blast or gamma than the chances of survival are great with a few precautions!

 

[Brent S]

Far more people will survive than 10%, the body can absorb a certain amount of RADs an hour before acute poisoning takes hold. If one stays indoors for 10 to 14 days, after that period of time one can venture out for a short times limiting exposure, everything is in the time of exposure generally referenced in hours, radiation doesn't stay in the body and in many cases people have survived acute poisoning without permanent damage. Remember, all the numbers out on the internet and in government books are hypothetical (worse case). If one isn't affected by the blast or gamma than the chances of survival are great with a few precautions!

I like your optimism. Only hope that we never test these theories. One thing does bother me though. The radiation gets washed away with rain, but it goes into the soil. There are islands in the pacific that you can live on, but can't eat anything grown in the ground. Plants absorbe enough to be poision. I have a feeling the cancer rates would go up dramatically. Anyways, with trump in office, maybe we will be able to get along with Putin and stop trying to provoke each other.

 

[Maverick]

I like your optimism. Only hope that we never test these theories. One thing does bother me though. The radiation gets washed away with rain, but it goes into the soil. There are islands in the pacific that you can live on, but can't eat anything grown in the ground. Plants absorbe enough to be poision. I have a feeling the cancer rates would go up dramatically. Anyways, with trump in office, maybe we will be able to get along with Putin and stop trying to provoke each other.

Agree! Though regarding Trump and putin, before any agreement both side would have to verifiably pull back regarding russia and NATO.

 

[bigpaul]

nearest nuclear power station about 100 miles away, a range of hills, high ground and moorland in between, also the prevailing wind is AWAY from us, that's why we chose to move to this location 7 years ago.

 

[grayghost668]

Far more people will survive than 10%, the body can absorb a certain amount of RADs an hour before acute poisoning takes hold. If one stays indoors for 10 to 14 days, after that period of time one can venture out for a short times limiting exposure, everything is in the time of exposure generally referenced in hours, radiation doesn't stay in the body and in many cases people have survived acute poisoning without permanent damage. Remember, all the numbers out on the internet and in government books are hypothetical (worse case). If one isn't affected by the blast or gamma than the chances of survival are great with a few precautions!

I may be wrong on the survival rate but no matter it is going to be low the survivers will be able to lay claim to just about anything they can hold onto,,,there will not be much to stop them,,,,I just hope I can get my plans in motion before things go bad

 

[bigpaul]

the British government reckoned in the event of a nuclear strike the population would HALVE every 6 months, maybe levelling out at the 18 months mark, if you do the sums the final amount would indeed be 10% of the original population, which incidentally is the same population there was in 1750 just as the industrial revolution got off the ground in England.

 

[Brent S]

The odds of surviving may be debatable, but I tend to agree that if you weren't too close and can bunker down in a protected shelter for a few weeks for a lot of it to dissipate then you could stand a chance. The problem is what's left to eat? Growing plants in contaminated soil isn't wise. I wonder if canned goods on grocery shelves would be contaminated from a blast? And lots of the animals that normally are hunted for food would probably be killed off initially. I don't think figuring out how to survive a nuclear war is the answer here. It would be a heck of a lot smarter to figure out how to prevent one.

 

[grayghost668]

The odds of surviving may be debatable, but I tend to agree that if you weren't too close and can bunker down in a protected shelter for a few weeks for a lot of it to dissipate then you could stand a chance. The problem is what's left to eat? Growing plants in contaminated soil isn't wise. I wonder if canned goods on grocery shelves would be contaminated from a blast? And lots of the animals that normally are hunted for food would probably be killed off initially. I don't think figuring out how to survive a nuclear war is the answer here. It would be a heck of a lot smarter to figure out how to prevent one.

canned food will be ok from what I have read just clean the can before you open it,I would shy away from fresh water fish,the remaining wild game if it appears to be healthy will be edible trim off any meat that was touching bone and do not eat any of the organs,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,on a further note if you were wise enough to have stored a year or more of survival food the wild game may have had a chance to recover and the radiation threat in them may have deminished ,,,,just my opinion

 

[bigpaul]

trouble is the fall out, the ground in Wales and parts of the Westcountry were contaminated by rainfall from Chernobyl for years, they may still be for all I know.