No we wouldn't. This isn't an atomic bomb exploding in the air. This is uranium stored deep underground having it's containers blown up. It's isn't like TNT! The uranium won't "blow up" like a boxcar full of TNT will if you drop a bomb on it. It isn't THAT radioactive, and would raise background radiation so slightly it would be tough to detect. You'd see some increase in BGR IF there was a team THERE at the site, which there is NOT.
When an A-bomb goes off? The reason it goes "boom" is because a chain reaction inside it makes lots of really nasty atoms & isotopes which releases a LOT of energy all at once. After the first second or so? The chain reaction stops. The "fallout" is from those nasty things (like Strontium 90 for example) & isotopes continuing to breakdown into various radioactive or non-radioactive atoms.
SO: no "fallout" from this attack. It's isn't an atomic bomb, it's just uranium.
No we wouldn't. This isn't an atomic bomb exploding in the air. This is uranium stored deep underground having it's containers blown up. It's isn't like TNT! The uranium won't "blow up" like a boxcar full of TNT will if you drop a bomb on it. It isn't THAT radioactive, and would raise background radiation so slightly it would be tough to detect. You'd see some increase in BGR IF there was a team THERE at the site, which there is NOT.
When an A-bomb goes off? The reason it goes "boom" is because a chain reaction inside it makes lots of really nasty atoms & isotopes which releases a LOT of energy all at once. After the first second or so? The chain reaction stops. The "fallout" is from those nasty things (like Strontium 90 for example) & isotopes continuing to breakdown into various radioactive or non-radioactive atoms.
SO: no "fallout" from this attack. It's isn't an atomic bomb, it's just uranium.