Fallout 76 on Bethesdan verkkopeliin keskittyvä Fallout-peli, joka julkaistaan 14. marraskuuta PC:lle, PS4:lle ja Xbox Onelle. Kyseessä on koko Fallout-sarjan esiosa, joka sijoittuu huomattavasti varhaisempaan aikakauteen.
Fallout 76:ssa eloonjääneet kömpivät suojistaan maan pinnalle vain 25 vuotta ydintuhon jälkeen. Kuinka paljon säteilyä olisi silloin ilmassa? Voisiko vettä juoda, ja ruokaa syödä? Näitä asioita PC Games N kysyi Surreyn yliopiston ydinfyysikolta Paddy Reganilta.
Tappavinta ei olekaan Fallout 76:n maailmassa säteily, vaan infrastruktuurin puuttuminen. Sama ilmiö tapahtuu vakavan maanjäristyksen jälkimainingeissa.
"The amount of radiation that happens immediately is not insignificant. But most of the radioactive material becomes not radioactive pretty soon after that nuclear weapon has been exploded. The half-life for most of the stuff that comes out of fission fragments is much shorter than years. After about ten or 15 days, you've got a limited amount of different radioactive isotopes that are present. And after 30 years there are only two that are actually of significant strength,"Regan told PCGamesN.
"What kills people is the infrastructure that's wiped out," he added. "No communication, no access to food or running water, sewage, cholera. Same as an earthquake."
"Getting radioactive material inside your body is generally not good for your health. Stuff in tin cans I think would be ok - what you'd be more worried about is eating bits of meat, or cows that had been grazing on the fields in the three or six months after the attack happened."