The Most Radioactive Locations in Fallout

It's good to see Pittsburgh survived the apocalypse unscathed

the fact mass fusion has such high levels of alpha radiation (since your skin can block it out almost entirely) that you only get after ingesting is honestly the most scientific thing Bethesda has ever done and I am shocked

Environmental surveyor: "did you dispose of that waste safely?" Fallout contracts: "yeah we dumped it into a spring which provides a local water supply" Surveyor: I'll have to report you if you didn't open the barrels too"

According to the wiki the water in the mass fusion reactor gives you 100000 rad/s if you drink it.

Fallout 4 is also 200 years after the Great War, so a nuclear bomb crater is likely to have much less rads as a lot of the elements have already decayed into stable isotopes. A pool of water near a reactor designed to power a couple million homes in the Boston metropolitan area is going to be very deadly, especially given how blue it is.

Vault 87 was directly hit with a nuke during the Great war according to a cut Overseer's terminal log.

The fact a malfunctioning nuclear plant is the lowest on the list shows how safe nuclear power is

"Drinking the water in the reactor room will inflict 15 physical and 100,000 rad damage, killing the player character instantly unless they have the Lead Belly perk at its maximum level. Having the Ghoulish perk does not mitigate any of this damage. The Robes of Atom's Devoted from the Far Harbor add-on will protect from this damage; however, without the Lead Belly perk, radiation will still increase to a significant level." "Touching the agitator receptacle or the blue beam emitting from it in the reactor room will inflict 1 million damage irrespective of any perks, instantly killing the player character." - Fallout Wiki, Mass Fusion building TLDR; Mass Fusion water deals 100k rad damage.

One time playing fallout 3 I loaded up on Radaway, maybe 200 or so, hot keyed them and ran towards vault 87. I was convinced I could get inside and with the help from my brother, who was furiously pressing the hot key button, I made it to the door and was so devastated when I couldn't make it into the vault. Good times 😂

This video is just reminding me of how absolutely horrifying radiation death is. Invisible energy that makes your flesh fall apart and your bones disintergrate.

My goofy ass little nephew watching this video: "Fallout 76 can't be way in the past before New Vegas , the graphics are better." 😂

22:30 That sign isn't actually pre-war. That's a sign erected by the National Guard in the days or weeks following the Great War. You can see the same signs placed at numerous Military checkpoints across the wasteland. I think the Scientist seen at the entrance of the Vault was actually someone the military sent in to see if Vault 87 was still intact. It is easy to forget that the National Guard did make an attempt to follow protocol and maintain order. For a little while at least.

Gecko Plant: I'm like... super dangerous for your health. Got a lot of radiation. Disposal site in Fallout 76: That's nothing. You should see my radiation levels! A Vault Tec Door in The Capital and some water in Massachusetts laughing in RADS.

The Glow will always be my favourite, it's basically a rite of passage for first time Fallout players. The first time you realise, far too late, that your character is lethally irradiated.. it's horrifying. They captured the terror of it better than any of the later games, where you get a handy accurate number on-screen and can immediately flush it out by spamming Rad-Away..

Worth noting that alpha particles cannot pass through most matter. a thin sheet of paper is enough to stop a lot of alpha radiation, same with a persons skin, clothes and armor.

It's to bad radiation is just a minor mechanic despite how important it is to the game's atmosphere.

RadKing: "Shame on those Fallout Tactics devs for saying Radiated instead of Irradiated" Also RadKing: "Ulyssis."

As the list continued, I was confident the Glowing Sea would be somewhere. Needless to say, I was astonished as RadKing drank the water and showed the amount of instant rads. Now if only the Children of Atom found out about the Blessed Water.

"Its not 9999 rad... its 15 000" "What does that number mean?" "It means its Quantum Syrup"

You should also take into account how fast time flows in game. Like how most games like this have 24 minute days. Which means if the rads in the drywells crater could instantly kill you in 4 minutes it would make sense you only last 4 seconds