#radiation storms

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[littleatombomb]

VDSG Catalogue No.5846

“The Commonwealth is occasionally plagued by radiation storms that blow in from the Glowing Sea, far to the southwest.”

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“My absolute favorite part of Fallout 4 was during my first playthrough, when I got caught outside in a radiation storm for the very first time. Up until this point, I’d mostly been hanging around Sanctuary, going out on short-term scavenging missions and spending most of my time rebuilding the community. I was deathly afraid of radiation storms. The second one hit, I’d dive in bed and sleep until it was over so as to spare myself the radiation damage and terrifying green sky. But once I’d decided to venture out of that corner of the map, I had no such recourse at my fingertips. It happened while I was walking through a quiet, decaying suburban neighborhood. I knew there was nothing I could do, so I just kept walking. Everything turned green. The air was electric and my Geiger counter crackled. The OST song “The Stars My Solace” kicked on and…I saw how beautiful it all was. The quiet eeriness of the song, the wild shadows of the storm, the emerald flash of lightening over the eaves of long-shuttered homes…

After that, I always ran outside to watch the radiation storms.“

Fallout Confessions

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A record of unexplained "radiation storms" over the last 100 centuries

A record of unexplained “radiation storms” over the last 100 centuries

When high-energy radiation strikes the upper atmosphere it turns nitrogen atoms into radioactive carbon-14, or radiocarbon. The radiocarbon then filters through the air and the oceans, into sediments and bogs, into you and me, into animals and plants—including hardwoods with their yearly tree rings. To archaeologists, radiocarbon is a godsend. After it is created, carbon-14 slowly and steadily…

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Tree rings reveal devastating radiation storms

A new study has shed new light on a mysterious, unpredictable and potentially devastating kind of astrophysical event. A team led by Dr Benj

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