Nuka-Cola Quantum (Fallout 3)

Nuka-Cola Quantum is a consumable item in Fallout 3.

Characteristics
Drinking a Nuka-Cola Quantum will increase your action points by +20 for four minutes and your radiation by +10. Unlike regular Nuka-Cola, it does not provide hit points and there is a 10% chance of becoming addicted to Nuka-Cola Quantum. This is hinted at through the dialogue of Nuka-Cola addict and fanatic, Sierra Petrovita.

When mixed in a tin can with Abraxo cleaner and turpentine, it creates a Nuka-grenade, a "potent cocktail of carbonation and detonation." Sierra Petrovita has also created a recipe for a delicious pastry by mixing Nuka-Cola Quantum with flour and vodka.

Variants

 * Nuka-Cola
 * Ice cold Nuka-Cola

Fixed locations
There are 93 bottles found in the base game and 14 additional bottles included with the add-ons, a total of 107 bottles. See the table below for a full list of locations. Bottles found in vending machines are random and are not included in this list.

Additional locations

 * In addition, there is a random encounter on the map in which a traveling salesman will offer to sell a Quantum for 100 caps (or 50 if a Speech or Barter check is passed). This can happen a theoretically unlimited number of times, but he will only sell one Quantum per encounter.
 * Nuka-Cola Quantum can randomly spawn in Nuka-Cola vending machines. When accessing one of the 178 vending machines scattered indoors and outdoors throughout the Wasteland there is approximately a 10% random chance of finding a Nuka-Cola Quantum. The contents of a Nuka-Cola vending machine load the first time you enter a cell and never reset.
 * With the Quantum Chemist perk added by the Broken Steel add-on, every 10 normal Nuka-Colas that you have in your inventory automatically become one bottle of Quantum. Since Nuka-Cola respawns in several shops, with this perk the Quantum count is theoretically raised to an infinite amount.

Related quests

 * The Nuka-Cola Challenge
 * Mississippi Quantum Pie

Behind the scenes

 * Nuka-Cola Quantum's proposed slogan "Take the leap... enjoy a Quantum!" is a pun dealing with the scientific term "quantum leap", which refers to the phenomenon where an electron nearly instantaneously (within a few nanoseconds - one second is equal to 109 nanoseconds) leaps from one energy level, or quantum state, to another.
 * Nuka-Cola Quantum may be a reference to the short lived Coca-Cola C2 which was advertised as having "half the carbohydrates, sugars and calories" of regular Coca-Cola, an almost opposite of Quantum's advertisement of "twice the calories, twice the carbohydrates, twice the caffeine and twice the taste" of regular Nuka-Cola. Another possible reference is to Jolt Cola, a soft drink first bottled in 1985 whose unrepentant slogan was "All the sugar and twice the caffeine!"