Global & Disaster Medicine

Flash of light? Mushroom cloud? Expert advice is: “Don’t run. Get inside.”

January 21st, 2018

Campus Safety

Shelter?

  • Concrete and brick buildings.  A home basement OK too.
  • Avoid structures made of wood and plaster:  No protection
  • Go deep. Underground areas or the center of a tall building;

Then what?

  • Stay inside for at least 24 hours. Radiation levels are extremely dangerous after a detonation, but levels decrease rapidly.
  • Tune in to the news

 

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