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Nuclear material is a crafting component in Fallout 4.
Characteristics
A catch-all term for the various radioactive substances found in the Commonwealth. The nuclear material is a rare and valuable item used to craft weapon modifications as well as various explosives.
Production
| Materials: | Requirements: | Produces: | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Miscellaneous object (see below) |  |  | Nuclear material (varies) |
| Item | Yield* | Weight | Yield/Weight* |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alarm clock | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Biometric scanner | 2 | 3 | 0.67 |
| Blast Radius board game | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Distress pulser | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| High-powered magnet | 1 | 5 | 0.2 |
| Ichor sac | 1 | 0.5 | 2 |
| Inactive distress pulser | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Mini nuke beryllium cap | 1 | 0 | ∞ |
| Mini nuke detonator shell | 2 | 0 | ∞ |
| Mini nuke hemisphere core | 1 | 0 | ∞ |
| Nuclear material | 1 | 0.1 | 10 |
| Shipment of 25 units | 25 | 0 | ∞ |
| Prototype biometric scanner | 2 | 3 | 0.67 |
| Radioactive gland | 2 | 0.5 | 4 |
| Radscorpion stinger | 2 | 0.5 | 4 |
| Recorder | 1 | 0.7 | 1.43 |
| Wakemaster alarm clock | 2 | 1 | 2 |
- * Nothing is gained if one does not have at least level 1 of the Scrapper perk. At level 3, yields are at least doubled.
Locations
- Can be looted from dead super mutant suiciders if they've detonated their mini nuke, otherwise they will drop the mini nuke.
- Can be looted from any glowing creature.
- Occasionally found in bags of meat.
- Can often be looted from the bodies or goo piles when enemies are killed by plasma weaponry or any weapon with the plasma infused modifier.
- Shipments can be bought from Alexis Combes in Vault 81, but only at certain times are they available.
- Gained from scrapping the uranium deposits in Vault 88.