A dirty bomb could make NYC uninhabitable for 25,000 years.
Don't tell the folks living in Hiroshima and Nagasaki ;)
Fallout radiation decays relatively quickly with time. Most areas become fairly safe for travel and decontamination after three to five weeks.
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Dirty bombs emit many times less radiation than an actual nuclear warhead. In any event it's a short time, weeks, not eons
OMFG why'd he use wikipedia?!?!? - I don't have wikiphobia, a term I just invented for this sentence to describe irrational aversion to the site. It's fine for basic stuff like this and sports stats, movie data, etc., where there's no left-wing political bias ruining the reliability. Left-wing bias would skew this particular result HIGHER, toward multiple YEARS, not a few weeks.
Don't tell the folks living in Hiroshima and Nagasaki ;)
wikipedia.com
Dirty bombs emit many times less radiation than an actual nuclear warhead. In any event it's a short time, weeks, not eons
OMFG why'd he use wikipedia?!?!? - I don't have wikiphobia, a term I just invented for this sentence to describe irrational aversion to the site. It's fine for basic stuff like this and sports stats, movie data, etc., where there's no left-wing political bias ruining the reliability. Left-wing bias would skew this particular result HIGHER, toward multiple YEARS, not a few weeks.