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nuclear fallout
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residual radioactive material following a nuclear blast
Research
3,222 papers- Predictive modeling of atmospheric nuclear fallout microphysics.The Science of the total environment · 2024
- Review of current nuclear fallout codes.Journal of environmental radioactivity · 2017
- Nuclear preparedness.Disaster medicine and public health preparedness · 2011
- Fallout from Nuclear Weapons Tests: Environmental, Health, Political, and Sociological Considerations.Health physics · 2020
- Dose Estimation for Exposure to Radioactive Fallout from Nuclear Detonations.Health physics · 2022
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Encyclopedic overview
One of many possible fallout patterns mapped by the United States Federal Emergency Management Agency that could occur during a nuclear war (based on 1988 data). Atmospheric nuclear weapon tests almost doubled the concentration of radioactive C in the Northern Hemisphere called the bomb pulse, before levels slowly declined following the Partial Test Ban Treaty.
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