This is the right of it OP. Wind conditions for example, like in parts of California where smog just lingers for decades. Radioactive particulate will do the same thing, dwell there and render it uninhabitable.
Well, dilution is a solution to a lot of hazardous materials. That said I don't have experience with much radioactive materials besides Caesium(which is a bitch, do not recommend), my experience with radiation is mostly energy related.
A nuclear bomb going off in Denver would probably improve the situation. It's like a mini San Francisco with the mini part getting less relevant every year. It was a lot nicer 10+ years ago.
Yeah, most of Douglas county is on the other side of a ridge that should deflect an outburst, so nothing of value will be lost except for those of us on the wrong side of that ridge. Oh well, doesn't matter
I'm pretty sure the higher your elevation, the smaller your average distance from the Sun. Furthermore, as distance from the center of the Earth increases, atmospheric density decreases and exposure to ionizing radiation like cosmic rays and gamma rays also increases. Keeping in mind both these factors, and utilizing Quigon's Three-Body Pablum, I posit that you will die faster, albeit infinitesimally, from radiation in the wake of a nuclear blast in Denver that you would somewhere less heightful.
Iirc, a lot of it depends on where and how those radioactive particles are going to spread. So factor in water flow, and typical wind patterns.
Valleys in particular can potentially be somewhat safe, so long as detonation occurred well outside of the valley itself.
This is the right of it OP. Wind conditions for example, like in parts of California where smog just lingers for decades. Radioactive particulate will do the same thing, dwell there and render it uninhabitable.
Well, dilution is a solution to a lot of hazardous materials. That said I don't have experience with much radioactive materials besides Caesium(which is a bitch, do not recommend), my experience with radiation is mostly energy related.
So I have no idea if that was a good move or not.
A nuclear bomb going off in Denver would probably improve the situation. It's like a mini San Francisco with the mini part getting less relevant every year. It was a lot nicer 10+ years ago.
Yeah, most of Douglas county is on the other side of a ridge that should deflect an outburst, so nothing of value will be lost except for those of us on the wrong side of that ridge. Oh well, doesn't matter
If I remember right that is the plot of the original Fallout 3, aka Van Buren.
Sucks will never get to play out that one, you can at least find & read about the plotline and area and such as that was all done.
The USSR used nukes to build structures on mountains and have records of it. You can check on that.
I'm pretty sure the higher your elevation, the smaller your average distance from the Sun. Furthermore, as distance from the center of the Earth increases, atmospheric density decreases and exposure to ionizing radiation like cosmic rays and gamma rays also increases. Keeping in mind both these factors, and utilizing Quigon's Three-Body Pablum, I posit that you will die faster, albeit infinitesimally, from radiation in the wake of a nuclear blast in Denver that you would somewhere less heightful.