i'd love to get a few of those shipping containers. anyone know where i can buy them cheaper than new?
i'd think the steel would help protect against radiation too. i'd build a concrete and rebarb shell and encase that sucker in it. im no engineer by any means. when i eventualy build mine, i will have it professionaly designed.
In my research, a key aspect of a fallout shelter is that it not be in the basement of the home. If your house burns above you the basement is not a good place to be. Our safe room is a shelter from home invaders and a decent place in the event of a tornado. Our fallout shelter is a better place to be in the event of a tornado, but it is a hard place to flee to quickly in an event like a home invasion.
Actually, I'm not certain steel is sufficient shelter from fallout. As I understand it from my reading, you need _distance_ from the radioactive particles. 24-48 inches of earth is supposed to work well against radioactive particles, but you must also filter the air you bring in from outside. And the filters must not only be accessible, but disposable a safe distance from your shelter. The biggest problems I see with using a conex as a fallout shelter are ventilation and entry/exit. Conexes have only one entry and can only be secured from the outside, so you'll have to weld some sort of modification there; then you will have to create a filtered ventilation system - and you're _still_ going to have to berm it most, if not all the way, to provide fallout protection and concealment.
I dont get it.
Why have a fall out shelter? Wont you be killed by the radiation, or some other aspect as a result?
Nevermind, that after the fallout, what will you eat? grow?
what about over seas containers buried? we thought bout buying a couple 40' one sand then reinforce them with concrete and rebar.
That your place?