*Use the following to help you determine the amount of material you'll need to reduce radiation penetration to 1/1000:[8]
- Steel: 21 cm (0.7 feet)
- Rock: 70-100 cm (2-3 ft)
- Concrete: 66 cm (2.2 ft)
- Wood: 2.6 m (8.8 ft)
- Soil: 1 m (3.3 ft)
- Ice: 2 m (6.6 ft)
- Snow: 6 m (20-22 ft)
Plan on staying in your shelter for a minimum of 200 hours (8-9 days). Under no circumstances leave the shelter in the first forty-eight hours .[9]
Most likely, a nuclear attack will not be a singular event. Be prepared for another strike or strikes by enemy nations, or an invasion by the attacking party.
Sometimes exposure is immediate and sometimes the radiation is carried within rain clouds (as was the case with the Chernobyl blast in the Ukraine a few years back) or is circulated around the world on trade winds.
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