bomb in order to suffer from radiation posioning?
2007-02-23 12:09:24 · 3 answers · asked by Ana E 2 in Environment
It's not so much how close they are but more a case of how much radiation there is and in which direction it travels.
If you have a look at this map showing areas affected in the wake of the Cerrnobyl disaster you'll see that some areas close to the plant were unaffected but other areas hundreds of miles away were seriously affected. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Chornobyl_radiation_map.jpg
If a person was within the blast zone itself they'd be affected but they may also be affected if they were downwind and hundreds of miles away.
2007-02-23 12:16:30 · answer #1 · answered by Trevor 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not very. You can actually be hundreds of miles away and get poisoned; atomic explosions create large amounts of radioactive dust, which then gets blown elsewhere by the wind.
2007-02-23 20:13:48 · answer #2 · answered by extton 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It depends on which way the wind is blowing. In any case, just be glad you're not on the vaporization periphery. Better to be at the exact center in that case.
2007-02-23 20:15:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋