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n. material settling from a radioactive plume, and its subsequent surface deposition
Usage examples of "radioactive fallout".
Some years ago an editor at The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists used wind data and a list of probable targets to calculate that Tierra del Fuego would be the last place on earth to be affected by radioactive fallout.
The cometary impact and fireball would simulate all effects of a one-megaton nuclear burst, including the mushroom cloud, with two exceptions: there would be no gamma radiation or radioactive fallout.
The second is the radioactive fallout, which the winds can spread over a wide area.
That had been the ultimate incentive of emigration: the android servant as carrot, the radioactive fallout as stick.
Even their friends the Ukrainians would be pissed, especially when you consider that radioactive fallout from Ukrainian bombs detonated on Czech soil will drift east into Ukrainian territory.
As the wreck of the Adventurous lay between that landing place and the town there was no need to fear the direct effect of the bomb but the radioactive fallout of the bomb could have created a great hazard to Greenwich.
She is really afraid that her pleasant and affluent world will end in a storm of radioactive fallout.
He knew that he was exposing himself to a risk since the radioactive fallout from this medium-sized defence missile was considerable.
Rain is in the air, and the public in neighboring regions should not go outside with the risk of radioactive fallout and.
However, it was not the threat of radioactive fallout and death by immediate radiation poisoning or later cancer, nor even the threat of mutant children, that removed the missiles and bombs from the world's arsenals.
Blast and thermal effects have turned many of the Caernan cities along this portion of the coast into rubble, and radioactive fallout has contaminated vast reaches of the landscape.
And there was no worry about radioactive fallout if the intended victim was a neighbouring country.
The Merlin's isotopes were left in orbit, there was no radioactive fallout.