We offer an excellent storm shelter as well as fallout shelters made of steel up to 1" thick.  We can alter our storm shelters by modifying the door, steps, and vents to make them Fallout Shelters.

When a nuclear weapon explodes sufficiently close to the ground, particles of soil and debris are drawn up into the fireball and subsequent cloud, where fission products from the weapon are deposited in and upon them.  The majority of these contaminated particles settle out in 24 hours, but, very fine particles can take weeks, months or even years.  These late-arriving particles represent but a minor hazard to health, because the radiation dose rate from fallout quickly decays.  The danger is principally from the fallout arriving within the first day or two after the explosion.

In terms of population put at risk, radioactive fallout is by far the most important effect of ground-burst nuclear weapons.  An attack consisting of several thousand ground-burst megatons can cover virtually all of the U.S. with lethal fallout.  (An accumulated dose of about 450R will produce fatalities in approximately 50% of the exposed population.)

A Fallout Shelter is needed everywhere outside of the areas exposed to the risk of blast.  Moderate radiation protection would save nearly everyone and would significantly reduce the amount of injury from fallout radiation as well as increase the tolerance of the surviving population for any subsequent radiation exposure acquired during cleanup.

Exterior view of 6' X 7' X 20' Fallout Shelter with 12' long extension

For an additional charge, we modify our underground storm shelters to become fallout shelters. To do this, we modify the door, steps, and vents. This is the most inexpensive way to build a fallout shelter. You would have to keep boards and bags of sand inside your shelter to mount inside the door base if you ever needed protection from fallout. The door base is built in a way that you can put two layers of boards and two layers of sand bags to keep the radioactive fallout from coming through the door of the shelter. The rest of the shelter is already protected from the fallout by the dirt on top of the shelter. The door entrance is 30" x 72" which extends 30" above the top of the shelter. (see Fig. A & B)

An additional feature that can be added to these shelters is a chemical and biological ventilation system. This system requires an air tight door.

Also included in this is the blast valves, pre-filter with metering device, A.C. power motor for air intake and hand crank for air intake, in case you lose electrical power. Other options are also available.

An advanced sewage system is also available. The discharge pump for the sewage system is inside the tank. We install the water lines, air inlet, and sewage outlet line thru the top of the shelter. The 3" vent pipe has a 300 PSI valve mounted inside the shelter. This valve must be shut off if there is a chemical or biological problem outside. The system will still work with the valve shut.

You will need to run the appropriate lines from the outside of the shelter to the unit. The price of this unit installed inside the shelter is $1,600.00. We can install a hand pump with this unit in case electrical power is lost. This hand pump installed is an additional $300.00. The commode itself must be supplied by the customer.

A 12' long walkway from the door entrance into the shelter,(see Fig E & F) can be added. This walk way will reduce the amount of radiation coming into the shelter through the door itself. This walkway is approximately 30" wide and 60" tall and it extends 12' away from the shelter. The door entrance coming down to this walkway is approximately 32" x 32". This comes with a regular door that is designed to withstand and F-5 tornado. We can put a blast door instead of the regular door for an additional charge. This door base will extend 30" above the top of the shelter. We can put the regular door or blast door (which ever you prefer) (see Fig. C & D). This means there will be 30" of dirt on top of the shelter. If you want the door to extend higher, please refer to the prices under door bases below.