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How far can nuclear fallout travel?

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There are several factors affecting the radius of nuclear fallout.

- The size of the explosion will effect the distance.

- Weather can affect it such as wind speed.

- The largest nuclear fallout was the Chernobyl Explosion in Ukraine in 1986.

The following is from wikipedia,

'The plume drifted over large parts of the western Soviet Union, and much of Europe. As of December 2000, 350,400 people had been evacuated and resettled from the most severely contaminated areas of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. According to official post-Soviet data, up to 70% of the fallout landed in Belarus. '

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