A lot cheaper and just as affective
by?Margarette Burnette,foxbusiness.com ? If you are worried about protecting your family from a tornado, hurricane, wildfire or worse ? radioactive particles from a nuclear explosion ? a fallout shelter may be the answer.
Paul Seyfried, co-owner of Utah Shelter Systems, specializes in making fallout shelters and other structures to protect people in such doomsday scenarios. ?Most of our clients are simply Americans who want to improve the safety and security of their families in tumultuous times,? he says.
Installing a fallout shelter is similar to improving any other structure on a homeowner?s property, Seyfried says. Depending on the builder, the shelter could be made of corrugated steel, concrete or even fiberglass.
But like any other home improvement, it?s important to select a builder who?s familiar with the products and knows what it takes to protect your home, he says. Homeowners also should make sure they understand all the costs, follow local building rules and stock the structure properly.
Priced like a well-equipped truck
Seyfried says underground structures at Utah Shelter Systems range in size from about 256 to 500 square feet, and they come with ventilation systems, wood-based flooring, bunk beds and a wiring system with light fixtures.
Lights run off of batteries that last two to three weeks, hopefully long enough to get through the worst of a calamity. If the batteries run out, a home generator could be used to recharge them, and generators cost about $1,000.
The cost starts at about $51,800. ?We want the price to be about that of a new, well-equipped truck,? Seyfried says. ?It sounds like a lot of money, but you sure see a lot of pickup trucks driving around on America?s roads.??Read more?
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A?fallout shelter?is an enclosed space specially designed to protect occupants from radioactive debris or?fallout?resulting from a?nuclear explosion. Many such shelters were constructed as?civil defensemeasures during the?Cold War.
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During a nuclear explosion, matter vaporized in the resulting fireball is exposed to neutrons from the explosion, absorbs them, and becomes?radioactive. When this material condenses in the rain, it forms dust and light sandy materials that resembles ground?pumice. The fallout emits?alpha?and?beta particles, as well as?gamma rays.
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Much of this highly radioactive material then falls to earth, subjecting anything within the line of sight to radiation, a significant?hazard. A fallout shelter is designed to allow its occupants to minimize exposure to harmful fallout until radioactivity has decayed to a safer level.
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Although many shelters still exist, some even being used as?museums, virtually all fallout shelters have been decommissioned since the fall of the?Soviet Union?in 1991.[citation needed]
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