Oakridge Nuclear Disaster Map
- Thread starter mowque
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Why are the areas that are highly effected not connected when there is a nuclear disaster?
mowque
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The winds and the terrain in that area. Asnys can explain it better, but it has to do with the way the radioactive material is sprayed out.
Note, this is a much different place then OTL Oak Ridge (where a disaster like this was basically impossible).
That's pretty common. Vagaries of meteorology - rain, for example, might cause one area to become more heavily contaminated than areas that weren't rained on, as it washes radioactive particulates out of the clouds. I don't really understand it myself, but you see it in most fallout maps.
mowque
Banned
Bummer, around 1944 or so. Is your family white or black? That matters. odds are you'll be pretty safe though. This map shows the government overreaction (and the diastaser area is more an excuse to exclude reporters and industrial spies).
Just watch your thyroid.
Were they aware of using potassium iodide tablets to mitigate thyroid damage at that point? I somewhat doubt it.
IOTL, at the time, they didn't realize that was even a risk unless the area was just saturated. It wasn't until the 50s that people realized how fast radio-iodine accumulates up the food chain. Might be different in this TL, if the federal government is over- rather than under-reacting.
My dad lived not too far from Oak Ridge when he was young. He never practiced fallout drills as such because they assumed a nuclear attack on the city would either a) be shielded by the mountains or b) obliterated by the explosion.