User Guide

Door thickness..........................4 yards, steel
Earth coverage..........................3,200,000 tons of soil, at 200 feet
Computer control system ......Think machine
Primary power supply ............Geo-thermal
Secondary power supply........General Atomics Nuclear Power
backup systems
Power requirements................3.98mkw/day
Stores ..........................................Complete construction equipment,
hydro-agricultural farms, water
purification from underground
river, defensive weaponry to equip
10 men, communication, social and
entertainment files (for total
duration)
NUCLEAR BLAST EFFECTS
Vault-13 is designed to provide protection from the effects of a
nuclear blast. To better understand the protection provided, we have
included a section from the High Energy Weapons FAQ that explains
how a nuclear blast causes damage.
The first thing bomb victims experience is the intense flux of pho-
tons from the blast, which releases 70-80% of the bomb's energy. The
effects go up to third degree thermal burns and are not a pretty sight.
Initial deaths are due to this effect.
The next phenomenon is the supersonic blast front. You see it
before you hear it. The pressure front has the effect of blowing away
anything in its path.
After the front comes the overpressure phase. It would feel like
being underwater a few hundred meters. (At a few thousand meters
under the sea, pressurized hulls implode.) The pressure gradually dies
off, and there is a negative overpressure phase, with a reversed blast
wind. This reversal is due to air rushing back to fill the void left by the
explosion.
The air gradually returns to normal atmospheric pressure. At
this stage, fires caused by electrical destruction and ignited debris turn
the place into a firestorm.
Then come the middle term effects such as keloid formation and
retinal blastoma. Genetic or hereditary damage can appear up to
forty years after initial irradiation.
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