Question about radiation damage

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Tyneras

How is that worse? That thread boils down to "There are 2 types or radiation, the stuff that acts close enough to gammas rays to be lumped together without a problem, and everything else which is too weak to treat as radiation unless you eat or inhale it." If anything it means you can simplify stuff easily, as you don't need multiple scales for different radiation types.

You missed the point. GURPS measures radiation sources (e.g. innate attacks and reactor 'brightness') in Rads.