Fallout: Relative Rate Decline of Radioactivity after Nuclear Explosion
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Fallout: Relative rate decline of radioactivity after nuclear explosion
Source: Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute's Medical Effects of Ionizing Radiation Course on CD-ROM (1999)

 

  • Summary of fallout effects from a hypothetical 10 Kt nuclear explosion.
  • The level of fallout decays quickly, roughly by a factor of 10 for every 7-fold increase in time.