Radiation Contamination in the waters of NYC

[jester]

500m after what 5 years should be pretty safe, not like you will be dealing with contamination like the soil or artifacts which can contain radioactivity and thus be hot and in turn cause radiation damage to you.

[fightingflamingo]

the New York Harbor, and lower Husdon estuaries are tidal in a nature, with substantial outflows of water from the upper Hudson,Raritan and Passaic Rivers (Northern NJ) out of the harbor/estuary system and into the Atlantic Ocean. Also since the targets in Elizabeth and Perth Amboy, are petroleum refining terminals, the best strike option would be an airburst to maximize the destructive effects across the widest possible area (the area in NJ is full of refineries and tank farms). With this in mind, by 2000 the most dangerous radiation should have dissipated, and been flushed out into the ocean by the natural flows of water, along with many of the toxins associate with the massive petroleum fires which resulted from the strikes. On land, there probably will be some residual radiation, but it shouldn't be substantial (again because of the airbursted weapons mentioned above). Purely conjecture of course because cannon does not tell us groundburst/airburst, just targets and yield.

[kalos72]

So do you think the majority of the radiation on Staten Island itself will be gone by then too?