Radiation Emergencies

       Here's one link on the subject:  http://www.bt.cdc.gov/radiation/pdf/measurement.pdf

            There are many more links, also.

            As for me, I do not think I am in an immediate danger zone where I live. But some later down range contamination could still get to me (the weather is hard to confidently predict, including the monsoon seasons). So I plan on monitoring the short wave and local radio for updates and information, if they even work. Plus I have a poor man's Geiger counter that uses batteries I can recharge, just in case. Last, I've got some military training in this subject, for obvious reasons, unfortunately.

               PS  Here locally in my little city there are 25 HAM radio operators, so hopefully throughout our world some will still be online, the short wave radio way.

               In the end, if the world I live in is contaminated, ala like "On the Beach" (both the novel and the movie), I pretty much should get religious and think about the end for me, if you buy the premise of the novel and movie.

               So again, if one should just be in a short term situation, like after a Hiroshima type blast near where you live, or a nuclear plant accident, just hunker down inside your abode for 3 days, and let the worse go away, as it will naturally. Residual radiation you can worry about later, and it probably won't kill you in any case. And remember many have a 40 gallon (151 liters) water heater in their abode they can access if times get hard. As for food, canned food stuffs will still be safe to eat. Last, as to the bathroom needs, do establish a place or bucket to use to keep the typical human waste contaminations (like typhoid and cholera) away from you and your Family.