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  • What is the minimum safe time to shelter?

    24 hours absolute minimum. 72 hours per most civil defence authorities. 14 days for a designed shelter in a fallout zone.

    And after that, it depends on how much of society is left.

    But you also have to think about the time the shelter is on standby, and that might be decades. You don’t want by the time you enter the shelter to find out there is mold everywhere, the food is all expired and the fuel tank corroded and leaked.


  • It can still be hooked up to outside air. With good enough filters you can prevent radioactive dust getting into the machine and that dust outside settles quickly enough. But living in a bunker is never a long term solution and a good setup is expensive to prevent mold, have enough spare parts, enough fuel that doesn’t expire, medicine, …