Answer by Guy Tech for Is it safe to grow and eat food on post-nuclear-war land?
Not sure scraping off the top soil will remediate the issue:in a nuclear war, most of the nuclear power plants are likely to meltdown or release large amounts of radiation from spent fuel pools. Wind...
View ArticleAnswer by Durandal for Is it safe to grow and eat food on post-nuclear-war land?
Its hard to answer concisely, since there would be great local variations, depending on where in the world your protagonists bunker is located, if the country was a direct belingerent in the war and...
View ArticleAnswer by Stig Hemmer for Is it safe to grow and eat food on post-nuclear-war...
"Safe" is always relative. Nothing in this life is completely safe.So, you have this nice looking bit of land that happens to be radioactive.Given a choice between eating the food from there and other...
View ArticleAnswer by MichaelK for Is it safe to grow and eat food on post-nuclear-war land?
Scrape off the top layer, grow the right kind of cropsFallout is essentially dust. It is not something that infuses everything and cannot be gotten rid of. You need to remove the top layer of soil a —...
View ArticleAnswer by Rekesoft for Is it safe to grow and eat food on post-nuclear-war land?
With radiation everything is always a trade off. You can have something which is very radioactive, but short-lived, or something that lasts millennia but is not very radioactive. Same for...
View ArticleAnswer by JDługosz for Is it safe to grow and eat food on post-nuclear-war land?
It is not safe to eat plants grown on Bikini even to this day, so the legal residents remain displaced and the atoll has no permanent inhabitants.The lasting culprit is Caesium-137.So the answer is no,...
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Answer by RonJohn for Is it safe to grow and eat food on post-nuclear-war land?
http://optimalprediction.com/radiation-uptake-in-edible-plants/https://www.osti.gov/scitech/biblio/5407895The first thing that is obvious from the table is how much higher the values are for...
View ArticleAnswer by wollington for Is it safe to grow and eat food on post-nuclear-war...
I believe that in a highly irradiated area, growing crops and subsequently eating those crops could be very dangerous. That dirt's irradiated man, so is that water, and those crops will be too.This...
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Follow-up of Could the entire world have been destroyed by the existing nuclear arsenal in 1962?Is it safe to grow food on land that was hit by nuclear bombs? Or will such food kill/fatally sicken...
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