Friday, February 19, 2010

#491 Nuclear Fallout Shelter



Do you know where your next Fallout Shelter is? Well, I didn't until today. In case you are not in the know: A fallout shelter is the place where you go when the Russians attack or when your local nuclear power plant blows up. Our local shelter is the Women's Community Building (conveniently just around the corner from our apartment) which the city considers replacing with cheap (or "affordable") flats.

Wikipedia says: "Effective public shelters can be the middle floors of some tall buildings or parking structures, or below ground level in most buildings with more than 10 floors. The thickness of the upper floors must form an effective shield, and the windows of the sheltered area must not view fallout-covered ground that is closer than 1.5 km (1 mi)."
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