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What (who) is fallout - definition

RESIDUAL RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL FOLLOWING A NUCLEAR BLAST
Fall out; Radioactive Fallout; Radioactive cloud; Radioactive dust; Radioactive fallout; Nuclear Fallout; Fallout; Nuclear dust; Radiological fallout; Nuclear fallouts; The Seven Ten Rule; Nuclear snow
  • pre-war steel]] and post-war steel which is manufactured without atmospheric air, became a valuable commodity for scientists wishing to make extremely precise instruments that detect radioactive emissions, since these two types of steel are the only steels that do not contain trace amounts of fallout.
  • [[Fallout shelter]] sign on a building in [[New York City]]
  • Calculated [[caesium-137]] concentration in the air, 25 March 2011
  • One of many possible fallout patterns mapped by the United States [[Federal Emergency Management Agency]] that could occur during a nuclear war. (Based on 1988 data.)

fallout         
n.
1) radioactive fallout
2) fallout from (also fig.)
fallout         
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1. radioactive particles carried into the atmosphere by a nuclear explosion and gradually falling to the ground over a wide area.
2. the adverse results of a situation.
fallout         
1.
Fallout is the radiation that affects a particular place or area after a nuclear explosion has taken place.
They were exposed to radioactive fallout during nuclear weapons tests.
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2.
If you refer to the fallout from something that has happened, you mean the unpleasant consequences that follow it.
Grundy lost his job in the fallout from the incident.
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Wikipedia

Nuclear fallout

Nuclear fallout is the residual radioactive material propelled into the upper atmosphere following a nuclear blast, so called because it "falls out" of the sky after the explosion and the shock wave has passed. It commonly refers to the radioactive dust and ash created when a nuclear weapon explodes. The amount and spread of fallout is a product of the size of the weapon and the altitude at which it is detonated. Fallout may get entrained with the products of a pyrocumulus cloud and fall as black rain (rain darkened by soot and other particulates, which fell within 30–40 minutes of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki). This radioactive dust, usually consisting of fission products mixed with bystanding atoms that are neutron-activated by exposure, is a form of radioactive contamination.

Examples of use of fallout
1. IRAQ FALLOUT The political fallout from the 2003 invasion of Iraq has plagued Blair.
2. The political fallout from Foggo‘s appointment continued.
3. Still, Chirac‘s hospitalization had considerable political fallout.
4. FALLOUT AND SECOND–GUESSING The political fallout since Foley, a Florida Republican, resigned last Friday, still dominated Washington a week later.
5. July 26 2005 21÷12 On Tuesday, the Competition Commission addressed the fallout from the fallout of the Wm Morrison purchase of Safeway in 2003.