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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
Far, far, far lower levels of radiation were released by the A-bombs than was released at Chernobyl.
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The actual amount of fallout from the Hiroshima bomb was relatively low, as was the yield from the bomb itself. The design of those two bombs wer hideously primitive and wasted a great deal of bomb material for a very little explosion compared to todays bomb.
the warheads nowdays do 100 to 1000 times the explosive yield with far less fissionable material.
The bomb was also detonated relatively high over the city at 2000 feet which reduced fallout (attachment of bomb debris to ground debris).