Nuka-Cola Quantum is glowing blue and is (moderately) safe to drink, so surely this blue water inside the Mass Fusion Building must be safe as well... right?
Ironically the coolant / radiation shielding water in a nuclear reactor is actually very clean and not in and of itself dangerously radioactive. Can't say if it would be after being left festering for several centuries, though.
If it's the surface level water of the cooling tank, then yes it should be fine, since all of the contaminated water sinks to the bottom. It is called heavy water for a reason after all. But if it's had radioactive materials in it for two centuries, then it's probably not safe to drink.
Holy shit, everybody in here is just guessing, and doing a bad job of it. Neutron radiation (fast neutron radiation) generally doesn't create isotopes because fast neutron capture is INCREDIBLY rare and wouldn't matter in this case anyway because fusion doesn't free neutrons as a byproduct. Heavy water is called that because the hydrogen portion of the H2O formula is deuterium, and heavy water, if it were to be used, would be the entirety of the moderating fluid, not a dilute or doping component.
Years ago I was sharing office space with two coworkers. One had brought in a can of coke and didn't finish it, leaving it on the desk. All three of us refused to get rid of it because it wasn't ours (it was but no one believed it was their own) so it stayed there for weeks mostly out of spite. One day one of them brought in a fresh, cold can and was sipping on it. At one point he took a swig, swallowed, then yelled "aaaah! It was warm!" and ran from the room. He drank from the spite coke can!
Situations like this is why quicksave was invented. Who hasn't jumped into a furnace at the iron works or jumped off of the roof of Mass Fusion just because you wanted to see if that action had a unique death animation?
Found this out the other day, lived. Nothing helped, not rad x not the decon chamber, had to find a doctor, fast travel killed me so I ran to diamond city
@@Sychyov wrong, the cap allowed for radiation damage is 9999, I would know, I fucking watched it happen, I had a hazmat on, and it nearly shut down my game amd lost progress, You can survive it. How I did it? Ask your mom
@@Josh-vx4zf Just because the interface doesn't allow you to see more than 9999 Rads doesn't mean you don't get more than the shown number. Also, 1000 Rads is the lethal dose, no matter how many HP you have (10 Rads = 1% of total HP) Surviving it is completely impossible without Robes of Atom's Devoted armor, which makes dying from radiation impossible. Hazmat suit does not protect against radiation gained from consumables. It gives you Radiation Resistance, which protects only against the environmental (toxic waste barrels and such) and attacks (such as feral ghouls' attacks and Gamma Gun). Even if it did, it wouldn't protect you, as 2% of 100k Rads is still 2k, which is twice the lethal dose. The only way you could've survived this without robes is by using mods. You can even test this with Radaway. I irradiated myself until there was like 5% HP left, put on the robes and drank the water. The UI showed that I got 9999 Rads. Using 20 Radaways, which remove 12000 Radiation damage together, does nothing. Wait for 24 hours, still does nothing. Consuming 166 Radaways, however, reduced my radiation level to 50%. Consuming 2 more Radaways completely removed any radiation I had left.
