{"id":76,"date":"2007-04-10T14:11:18","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T21:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=76"},"modified":"2017-04-16T22:27:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T05:27:52","slug":"more-advice-on-best-actions-to-survive-a-nearby-nuclear-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/more-advice-on-best-actions-to-survive-a-nearby-nuclear-blast","title":{"rendered":"More advice on best actions to survive a nearby nuclear blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2007-04\/cmu-cmp_1041007.php\">Carnegie Mellon researchers Keith Florig and Baruch Fischhoff offer simple, practical advice: on whether it is worth citizens\u2019 time to stock supplies needed for a home shelter, how urgently should one seek shelter following a nearby nuclear detonation, and how long should survivors remain in a shelter after the radioactive dust settles. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/> \u201cA number of emergency-management organizations recommend that people stock their homes with a couple dozen categories of emergency supplies,\u201d said Florig of Carnegie Mellon\u2019s engineering and public policy department. \u201cWe calculated that it would cost about $240 per year for a typical family to maintain such a stock, including the value of storage space and the time needed to tend to it.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Their research also suggests that many families who could afford to follow the stocking guidelines might think twice about whether the investment was really worth it, given the low probability that stocked supplies would actually be used in a nuclear emergency.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><em>They advocate simple rules for minimizing risk based on how far people are from the blast. If you are within several miles of the blast, there will be no time to flee and you will have only minutes to seek shelter. If you are 10 miles [downwind] from the blast, you will have 15 to 60 minutes to find shelter, but not enough time to reliably flee the area before the fallout arrives,\u201d said Florig. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>However, the <a href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=63\">prior advice<\/A> would suggest that if you are 10 miles from the blast that you could move perpendicular to the direction of the fallout plume and get out of the way in under 15 minutes. Needing to move one mile for smaller bombs. So I would think 10\u201320 miles downwind is a judgement call, but 25 miles you should be able to get out of the way of the fallout plume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carnegie Mellon researchers Keith Florig and Baruch Fischhoff offer simple, practical advice: on whether it is worth citizens\u2019 time to stock supplies needed for a home shelter, how urgently should one seek shelter following a nearby nuclear detonation, and how long should survivors remain in a shelter after the radioactive dust settles. \u201cA number of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-military","category-nuclear-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52033,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/52033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}