Would a vault Door work in Real life ?

[Kaname]

Title says it all would one work in real life or would it be a failure I mean the door design not sure it could work in todays world.. ? Could it

[GM Pax]

Not only is this a six month necropost ... but, how exactly did you MANAGE to pull off that ludicrously-inaccurate misattribution, anyway??

[Vagabond]

As part of my old job at the DOE uranium enrichment site I was part of the survey team that went into the underground bunkers 25 years after they'd been abandoned. Why were they abandoned? Here's why.

In the 50's no one understood the long term affects of radiation like they do now. So these fallout shelters were built 35 feet under ground right on top of the be rock. The idea being that the site would most probably take an air burst which would level all but the essential buildings and the essential buildings were designed to to take the blast. Remember these were part of "Operation Crash" and the yields in 1952 when they broke ground on this site were not much past WWII levels yet. So the idea was the workers would shelter, then afterward come back up and fix what was broke on the essential buildings and go back to enriching uranium. Sounds insane but in 1952 it was thought to be feasible. So the bunkers weren't designed for long term use.

But as they experimented and discovered the long term affects or radiation on the body and how the fallout would contaiminate and make regular metals radioactive, and then the increasing yields in the arms race, by the mid-1960'ss the shelters were deemed futile and sealed.

So 6 years ago I got to be one of the first to go back into them and survey them for demolition. Very creepy but amazing experience.

So all those home fallout shelters would be no good in the long run. Now I'm sure places like Norad would be much more survivable but if containment were breached that would be all she wrote and a slow death.

If you want a movie that covers radiation sickness pretty well watch "K-19" about the soviet sub.

[Neme]

Holy smokes Batman!

A nine month old thread has been reanimated,

Yes I spoted that Robin, You better go grab the Batrereanimateion spray

[Muggy]

Sorry for the necro, but it's bugging me terribly. While many of you made very valid argument and points, and I'm sure you know what you're talking about, but no one really knows "exactly" how the 9-Cog model actually works. I mean, most of the players think "Oh it slides into the hole and locks". I've been thinking about it a lot recently, as the new vault tec workshop beta has been released, and we finally get our own "vault door"(s). We are provided with the basic 9-cog main entrance, as seen in typically every F4 vault, but we also get the seal-n-safe model (I believe?). I was just staring at the main door, and wondering how it locked. So I opened it, and I see what I thought originally. Now they didn't detail it as much as they should have, but it's clear how it works. once it is pushed into the cog slot, the hydraulic system rotates the center, releasing locks into the cog slot. While they're not as secure as they could be, they're basically just 12 inch diameter metal bars. not even probably. I had also thought that maybe the door had an extra security measure similar to a barb type lock. Not really a lock. But the way that an arrow works basically. The arrow goes in easy, but is hard to pull out without removing the edges. The door would slide in smaller, then once inside the slot, the edges would protrude or expand and push against the edges of the door. I've drawn up a really crappy picture of it in mspaint, bear with me lol. Basic explanation, in better terms. The edges of the door would lift upward and catch on the edges of the cog slot. Think of an umbrella. You can put it into a hole, then open it, and itll be harder to pull out when its open. but if you push it out and close it, then you can take it back out.
http://imgur.com/a/vwBoX my drawing of the mechanics. This would make it similar to the seal-n-safe door, thus being slightly more secure, as it would press against the frame, as stated by one of you before. Now like I said, they didn't detail the door frame like it shouldve been, but you can clearly see the steel bars that come out of the door to lock. As well as the extra locks to make sure they dont fall out. I agree that this would not be enough to survive a direct nuclear strike, but within a mile or two, it should hold up pretty well, with minor damage. The outside control panel would be decimated, though.Making it pretty much impossible to enter the vault without another exit/entrance area. This is the vault 111 door, showing the locks on the backside of the 9-cog.
http://imgur.com/a/h4Lf1
Note! I'm not sure if these we're included in vault 101 or similar vaults from previous games, as I only really payed attention to the doors in F4. The wiki states that those used in vault 111 and similar (boston vaults) we're similar to those in DC and what not, but not exact copies.