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Originally Posted by Brett
What's the story with radiation shielding on ships and orbital habitats in Traveller? Solar storms, Van Allen belts, and the radiation belts of gas giants are never mentioned as a hazard (that I know of), but I seem to remember something about radiation killing crew in space combat.
Is there a canonical explanation in terms of physical or magnetic shielding? Or are cosmic radiation and radiation belts simply ignored without explicit explanation?
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They are ignored in CT and (basically) GT.
Cosmic and radiation belt stuff (along with solar storms) are two different sorts of beasts. Shielding against things like Jupiter's radiation belts is thoroughly doable. Transhuman Space basically ignores them except for people in vacc suits and equivalents. Very low penetration.
Cosmic radiation shielding in entirely another matter. Space habitats should have the equivalent of 3 meters of lunar rock (and nothing but mass matters). That 33 cm of steel is nowhere near good enough.
Transhuman Space again just heals this faster with nano than the cosmic radiation can do damage. Canon Traveller has no equivalent.