[quote=TheEvanCat]
Nuclear defense is pretty tricky, but in less ways than you'd expect. The intense shit gets washed out by the rain within the first couple of weeks, and you can hang out outside in your MOPP suits after that happens and start like, pressurewashing the ground to get everything else out. I don't remember an exact procedure, but I can research.Fallout is just radioactive particles in the dirt. Once you clear that away there's not too much of a problem. Probably can't plant food and stuff, but you can walk around. Hell, most of Chernobyl right now is able to be hung out in, and has been for a while. That's our case study.
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As STALKER so helpful educates (No really, the devs really knew their Chernobyl)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Forest