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Posted by: AnubissWarior
From how strong radiation can MkVI protect its spartan?
It would depend on the type of radiation, due to it's thick metallic nature the armour certainly offers excellent protection from alpha-particle radiation, it also is very likely to offer good protection against beta-radiation due to it's thick and dense nature.
It would also protect the wearer from all the nasty stuff in the far ultraviolet region.
It likely offers a measure of protection against X-ray radiation, (Metals are good at blocking X-rays) but it's impossible to estimate a value.
The amount of protection it would offer from gamma-ray radiation would depend on what the material making up the suit actually is (it isn't regular titanium).
It is unlikely it can really protect the user from gamma, but it may provide some protection simply by placing matter between the user and the radiation.
In short, gamma is viscious and usually needs a lot of lead to stop.
The armour would actually make the user *more vulnerable* to cosmic rays and heavy metal ion particle radiation, this is due to the metal ion spallation that can occur in this process; any heavy atoms (like, say the metal in the armour) can be hit by the metal nucleus (the radiation particle in this case) and by a process called spallation (think of shrapnel production by a bullet) can be turned into a second radiation particle by collision. This can repeat, so one metal nucleus particle can result in a shower of slightly slower nuclei coming out the other side of the armour.
That's probably going into too much detail, but there you go.
If you meant "how would it do in a nuclear wasteland?" then the answer is "very well".
Most radiation risk from nuclear weapons is the fallout-alpha and beta-emmitters in particulate/dust form. The armour would be able to fully protect the user from this environment due to it's filters and NBC capabilities.
The gamma burst from a fusion bomb would still be a threat, but that only occurs on detonation, and if you are in a direct line of sight to the bomb when that happens you have other problems as well.....
Posted by: SUBJECT901
i heard somewhere that shields can deflect all radiation
Not possible.
If it was the Spartan Laser would be unable to damage shielded targets.
Posted by: ferrrari
Can't spartans take more radiation then a human?
Very unlikely, due to the nature of the damage done (cellular, not macro-scale).
They can almost certainly only take the same amount of radiation any human of their body mass could, that is their only advantage and it's very slight, they are bigger.