Utah Shelter Systems products

Underground Bunkers come in many different styles and designs. Underground Shelters USA builds and designs both steel and concrete bunkers. During your search, you may also find bunkers made from storage containers, concrete, fiberglass and even dirt and wood. Choose carefully, as your life may depend upon your choice.

Utah Shelter Systems specializes in manufacturing underground steel shelters because they offer very cost effective protection from the effects of nuclear weapons, as well as biological and chemical weapons (NBC). That ordinary citizens can be so effectively protected to within 1/2 mile of a large yield nuclear explosion for about the cost of a new pickup truck is remarkable. The concept is simple. A steel cylinder of a usable size is outfitted with bulkheads, a deck, electrical system, ventilation system, and properly designed entrances, and buried to a suitable depth to ensure proper earth arching and shielding. If the wall thickness of the cylinder is thick enough, and the backfill is performed to industry specifications, such a structure will endure a nuclear shock that would destroy all above ground buildings within a 5-mile radius of the blast.

Bomb Shelters (or Nuclear Shelters) must be designed against all nuclear weapons effects. Standard concrete shelters designed by Utah Shelter Systems offer blast protection up to a 45 psi blast level. Our engineers can, however, design concrete shelters to much higher blast levels. Our steel pipe shelters, installed at twice their diameter, can offer blast protection levels to 150 psi and can protect occupants to within 1/2 mile (1/4 mile from the crater edge) of ground zero of a 1-megaton weapon.

Underground storm shelters and underground storm cellars are designed for natural disasters, such as tornadoes, hurricanes, winter storms, and earthquakes. They do not need the long entrances and 90-degree turns that are required for radiation attenuation in nuclear shelters and are slightly less expensive than the types of emergency shelters that cover `all hazards`. Storm shelters can have short side entrances, or even “stove top” emergency exits coming from the ceiling.

Disaster shelters come in many forms, sizes and types. Disaster shelters increase our chances for survival without injury and without becoming a burden to disaster recovery services. We believe that all communities should offer survival shelter incentives.

Fallout shelters are not necessarily blast shelters and are not usually designed to protect against all weapons effects. They are designed to protect shelter occupants against gamma radiation associated with fallout. Gamma radiation is the most far reaching of any of the weapons effects. Utah Shelter Systems does not build shelters to only a fallout shelter standard, unless specifically requested to do so. Steel fallout shelters if designed to only a fallout standard, must have a minimum of 4 feet of dirt cover over the shelter body. Please note, however, that prompt gammas, are not associated with fallout and the shielding material for prompt gammas is of a different type.