What are you Prepping for.

[Mortblanc]

Joe you are thinking about prepping for an event that experience has shown can not be survived. A radiation monitor is not a piece of survival equipment, it is a time to death estimation device. If you are measuring the dosage of radiation you are experiencing all you can use the information for is to estimate how long it will be before you die. 2 weeks or two months or two years when the cancer get done with you.

The human race has already been there and done the meltdown thing!

The exclusion zone at Chernobyl is the size of Kent. We will never know how many people died at Chernobyl. They will never release those numbers, they can't for reasons of national security.

Fukashema exclusion zone is not as big but they can not spare the land. That and they were on the east coast of Japan and the winds were in their favor.

Your preps for nuke meltdown can only be plotting the best route north or south, out of the prevailing winds, for the most rapid evacuation possible. This is the part where never letting your vehicle go below a half tank becomes important.