A particularly novel feature is a collapsible, weather-balloon-deployed antenna, capable of being launched from within the shelter. Īrk Two is equipped with a communications room capable of broadcasting locally on the FM broadcast band and throughout Canada and the United States on the AM and Shortwave bands. Powered by redundant diesel generators, the heavily fortified ("virtually impenetrable to anything short of a direct nuclear strike" ) shelter includes two commercial kitchens, full plumbing (including a private well for potable water and a motel-sized septic tank), three months' worth of diesel, a radio-based communications centre, a chapel, and a decontamination room. With construction beginning in the early 1980s (during the cold war), the shelter was designed to accommodate as many as five hundred people for the length of time required to allow the widespread nuclear fallout to decay to a level allowing a safe return to the surface after a cataclysmic nuclear event. The 930 m 2 (10,000 sq ft) shelter is composed of 42 school buses, which were buried underground as patterns for concrete that was then poured over to provide the main structure, onto which up to 5 meters (14 feet) of earth were piled to provide fallout protection. The shelter first became habitable in 1980 and has been continuously expanded and improved since then. The Ark Two Shelter is a nuclear fallout shelter built by Bruce Beach (14 April 1934 – ) in the village of Horning's Mills (north of Toronto, Ontario).
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