Forum:Put RadX or Rad away in dirty water?

When playing the Fallout series i often wondered why people didnt try to make their irradiated water a little better by mixing some of these anti-rad drugs. Would it have a bad effect maybe? Aeoname nami gami shami

Probably would have a harmful effect. I don't think you're meant to DRINK Rad Away, considering it comes in IV drip bags. --DGoose 18:45, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

But you do eat Rad-X. That's an interesting idea, though. Pararaptor 09:13, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

...If you have all three then why not just drink a shitload of irradiated water, pop every Rad-X pill and line ever vein with Raw-Away and go nuts? Gabriel Cortez 10:32, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

RadX increases the organism's radiation resistance (propably by temporarily increasing it's cellular endurance or some such), while RadAway only works when injected into the cardiovascular system, where it bonds with radiation particles and passes them out of the user's body via the kidneys. Neither can be used to remove radiation from water, as both affect the human organism, not the radiation.

Funnily, water purification isn't quite as hard as Bethesda thinks it is - you only need approximately 70 cm of sand in a filter to get most of the radiation particles out. Oh yeah, before any of you go "but the dirt is irradiated, Tagz", no, only the surface is. About half a meter below ground level, it's as pure as a newborn's ass. http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/thumb/5/5c/Scribe.jpg/15px-Scribe.jpg Tagaziel (call!) 21:41, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

I think the issue with purifying the Potomac's tidal basin is more the fact that it's billions of gallons of water to purify than anything else. Besides, I believe that, according to Fallout lore, the ground is also irradiated deeply enough to contaminate groundwater. I could be wrong about this. --DGoose 22:22, 29 July 2009 (UTC)