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Old 07-01-2018, 11:45 AM   #13
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Idaho Falls, Idaho
Default Re: Radiation-eating vampire

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Originally Posted by L.J.Steele View Post
Big bad for my next Fate Core/Venture City/Supers game is likely to be a radiation-eating vampire. I'm thinking early prey will be folks with radioactive seeds for cancer treatment. Any other ideas for targets beyond the obvious?

Game is set in modern-ish San Diego.

Don't suppose anyone can comment or has sources on the Navy's storage at North Island NAS or what sort of things one might find in a hospital or medical lab.
It is a game, and so you don't need to be constrained by reality, just plausibility.

So patients with radioactive implants, implant hospital storage units, transporters moving the implants, the facilities making the implants, the shipments of radiative sources materials the implants are made from, and the reactor/accelerator facilities irradiating the source materials are all candidates. Besides the medical implants, there are radioactive solutions that are similarly shipped and moved.

Similarly for medical equipment and food irradiators - there is the faculties themselves, the shippers brining new sources and returning used sources (which are still radioactive, just not at the level desired for the operations), the facilities that fabricate the irradiation sources, the shippers that bring the radioactive material to the fabricators, and the reactor where the sources materials are made radioactive.

Then there are X-ray machines. Doctor, vet, and dental offices and hospitals have them, as do construction sites that do welding radiographs of piping and water content of road beds. Shipper bring new ones and take away old ones, Old ones are stored in dumps, Facilities assembly them, Shippers bring radioactive sources for the machines, and Reactors are used to generate the material.

Then there is the storage facilities for Low level waste (the medical waste), transuranic waste (items contaminated with plutonium, mostly national labs and DOE facilities), and high level waste (irradiated nuclear fuel, at nuclear plants and consolidated storage facilities, and the reprocessing waste from defense and commercial facilities at DOE sites). There are shipments from the storages facilities to disposal sites for the low level waste (several around the country) and transuranic waste (WIPP in Ne Mexico). High Level Waste may eventually be shipped to Yucca Mountain in Nevada (when it is eventually opened).

There are the radioactive materials we mine: uranium, thorium, coal, and phosphorus.

There are radioactive foods we eat, bananas and certain nuts being the best know.

Certain paints and glazes contain radioactive materials. Radioactive materials are used in emergency exit signage, luminescent watches and gun sites, and smoke detectors.

Irradiated naval reactor fuel is on ships in ports, and the cores at the end of their operational life are shipped to storages facilities (where they will follow the high level waste path).

Nuclear weapons and pit are shipped between facilities (DOE fabrication, DOE Storage, and Military bases).
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