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Old 01-28-2010, 09:26 AM
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Default Radiation Contamination in the waters of NYC

So since NJ got hit with 2 nukes and cause alot of Staten Island to be wiped out I am wondering bout the water ways north of Staten Island.

Could I pilot a boat in the watersways around the island without worrying bout radiation?

I understand landing would be a problem but could I just go through the area...
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Old 01-28-2010, 10:22 AM
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Could I pilot a boat in the watersways around the island without worrying bout radiation?
I think so. Just don't swim in or drink the water. Floating in the water in a boat isn't going to get you irradiated, not like sitting inside the radioactive steel skeleton of a building in the nuke zone would.
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Old 01-28-2010, 03:22 PM
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Of course avoiding the area entirely is by far the best option...

How far away from an irradiated objectdo you need to be to be "safe"? Would an open boat a mile away from the nuked ruins be a death sentence even though the river itself has been flushed clean?
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Old 01-28-2010, 03:28 PM
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In sections...you are less then 500 feet away from shoreline. I wouldnt need to land or anything, just do a drive through.
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Hmmm, I'm thinking a lead overcoat would be a good idea....
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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.
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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.
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So do you think the majority of the radiation on Staten Island itself will be gone by then too?
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Old 01-29-2010, 11:30 AM
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According to this website, if I am reading it correctly, seems to imply that after 3-5yrs of normal weather patterns, radiation levels on the island would be back to normal.

It also seem to show a pretty good chart for determining the size of the blast and such too..


http://www.remm.nlm.gov/nuclearexplosion.htm
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Good site. Thanks for the link Kalos.
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Got this one today too...

http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/nukergv.html
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Hello, guys! So how can it be measured? I saw some detectors available at https://ecotestgroup.com/ Have you ever tried using them? I want to measure the radiation in a lake near my place, so I am interested in such things
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Just so long as you rescue your dad and get the GECK they need to research Project Purity you should be fine.
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Just so long as you rescue your dad and get the GECK they need to research Project Purity you should be fine.
Don't forget the water chip.
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