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What effects to expect from 100+ generations living subterranean with constant low doses of radiation
Back story is that humans settled a foreign planet and the star began to die so humans went subterranean until the worst of the star death cycle passed (yes I know this process theoretically takes ...
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Would an ultra-heavy tank be a resource-efficient zombie-extermination unit for an CBRN-contaminated environment?
The question, before you get into the rest of this textual abomination: with all of the context, objectives, and design features mentioned below, is an ultra-heavy tank a resource-efficient means of ...
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Plausible way to make it seem like the surface is uninhabitable?
In my world, right before WW3 went down, a few influential government members, well trained scientists and engineers built an impressive technologically advanced bunker for themselves to survive in.
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Tsar Bomba Red Forest [closed]
Since 1986, a thousand square miles of eastern Europe is off-limits to average people. That is because of the nuclear accident at Chernobyl. Ironically, the fact that people aren't allowed in the ...
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Could the location of soldiers be totally protected from radiation?
So, in my world, there is a secret group of people, known as the bunker dwellers. They see themselves as racially superior to all of the wastelanders, whom, they believe were genetically degenerated ...
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How would primitive peoples detect radiation?
In an environment in which acute radiation hazards are common what tools or techniques could be employed by primitive people to detect and thereby avoid radiation exposure?
These people do not ...
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How would nuclear fallout affect the oceans?
I'm trying to build a setting in which humankind would have no other choice than to live underwater to survive.
Suppose there was a nuclear war in which a huge part of the human population died, and ...
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What would happen if all 433 nuclear reactors had meltdowns? [closed]
NOTE: This was adapted from another question that I asked recently.
Apparently, a 30km radius around Chernobyl will not be safe for humans for another 20,000 years. The more recent 2011 Fukushima ...
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Could a nuclear war cause the majority of Earth to be uninhabitable for hundreds or thousands of years?
I understand that nuclear bombs don't have lasting radiation effects on the area that they're dropped. Examples of this are Nagasaki and Hiroshima, where less than a century after an atomic bomb was ...
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What good is a radio after a nuclear apocalypse?
Suppose in a post-nuclear apocalypse world, there are still less than a million survivors throughout the world. Radiation levels in the air are lethal for many animals, sea water is contaminated and ...
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How can a person without Geiger counter and modern education in physics learn the concept of radioactivity?
Imagine there are two regions, one of which has a significantly higher level of radiation. Think of Pripyat (higher level of radiation) and its surroundings (lower levels).
How can a person without ...
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In an all-out nuclear war, how long should people remain sheltered?
Fairly common in sci-fi literature is the scenario where the Earth is destroyed by an all out nuclear war. Typically, the protagonist has survived by remaining in underground shelters for decades ...
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Long-term ecological effects of a global (but strategic) thermonuclear war
I'm currently toying with a post-nuclear apocalypse, with most, if not all, human survivors living in underground bunkers or vaults, and probably away from previous population centers—my test case is ...
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