User:MigratingCoconut/rad rework

Contamination

Contamination now mostly happens by touching radioactive material, the contamination works similarly to contracting diseases by touch, using the clothes' permeability, but the clothes themselves also get contaminated.
Radiation no longer contaminates most things, but this doesn't mean areas that don't look green are safe.

Wave Spread

Waves now spread in a square, with each step the amount of rads each tile receives is the average of the adjacent tiles from the previous steps, multiplied by the ratio between the amount of tiles in the current step and the one in the previous step.
Of important note to power production: The wave affects the source tile at 1/4 strength and the surrounding tiles at the remaining strength divided by 8.

Radiation types

Radiation now comes in 3 different types:

• Alpha - Easily blocked by most things, emitted mostly by uranium
• Beta - Easily blocked by airlocks and walls, emitted mostly by the nuke core and plasma windows charged with Gamma radiation
• Gamma - Emitted by the SM and Singularity, isn't blocked well by most things other than plasma windows and reinforced walls.

Power Production

The Supermatter and Singularity output Gamma radiation, which is converted to Beta radiation by windows made with plasma materials and amplified in the process.
Radiation collectors absorb 20% of the Gamma radiation that hits them and 70% of the Beta radiation.

Windows

Windows multiply the radiation they convert, and different windows have different multipliers and absorb a different portion of the radiation, with fulltile windows absorbing more than directional windows.
When using directional windows it is recommended to use more than one, and to build them all on the same tile as a radiation collector, so it absorbs the wave at the source.
Reinforced plasma glass is worst, normal plasma glass is better while plastitanium glass is best:

Material	Directional Window Rad Multiplier	Directional Window Gamma Absorption	Full Window Rad Multiplier	Full Window Gamma Absorption
Reinforced plasma glass	1.5	60%	2.2	84%
Plasma glass	2	60%	3	84%
Plastitanium glass	2.5	60%	3.7	84%

Window Layouts

Rad collectors now have a higher threshold for the energy they produce from radiation. This means you want to have your windows as close to the collector as possible, and also as close to the Supermatter or singularity as possible, so that both the window and the collector can absorb the radiation closer to the source at a higher intensity.
For directional windows this means the same tile as the collector and for fulltile windows it means an adjacent tile.

When producing high amounts of radiation fulltile windows start having a stronger effect due to the threshold making up a much smaller portion of the radiation that reaches each collector from each window, but when EER and/or gas coefficient are relatively low directional windows will work better due to being right on top of the collector.