Radiation - Gravel and Lead Usages

In the recent video, someone mentioned solar storms, and in this post Radiation and Dangerous Chemicals | Space Engineers 2 Support the author elaborated further on radiation sources.

One source of radiation that the author did not mention is from the planets themselves. The Earth, for example, has the Van Allen belts, which are zones of trapped high radiation. Large gas giants such as Jupiter can also have large radiation zones and strong magnetic fields, which can be dangerous not just to astronauts but also to electronics themselves.

For the game, this could introduce additional components that could require the use of both gravel and lead, perhaps through the use of concrete as people are suggesting or even direct.

For a lunar base, I think NASA and other space agencies have considered burying the base in lunar regolith (i.e. gravel) to provide radiation protection from the Sun and other sources of radiation. Light and heavy armor could provide normal protection against stellar radiation, for example, but a solar storm or a large source of radiation (such as a stack of raw or refined uranium or plutonium) could bleed through such protection and harm the Space Engineer.

A section of a station with regolith (gravel) or concrete (refined gravel) blocks could serve to provide additional protection from radiation sources. Light Hardened Armor blocks could use gravel, while Heavy Hardened Armor blocks could use concrete. Both would add significant mass, making them impractical for ships.

This could be in addition to using gravel or concrete as decorative "coatings" to a structure, such as applying a concrete finish to light armor blocks to provide a "paved" look.

Similarly, lead could also be used in new blocks to provide radiation protection. For example, lead-lined glass could be used as a resource to provide lead-lined windows for the radiation bunkers. It could also be used to create a lead-lined cockpit that would provide radiation protection from solar storms.

Lead-lined light or heavy armor could be used to provide radiation protection for ships without adding as much mass as gravel would.

Similarly, a normal cargo container could leak radiation from uranium or other radioactive sources. But a lead-lined cargo container would not.

Lead-lined armor would also provide less kinetic protection than gravel would. Depending on how you rank the armors and glass, you could have the following:

• Lead-lined light armor or glass - kinetic damage: lowest - radiation: high - mass: lowest
• Light armor or glass - kinetic damage: low - radiation: lowest - mass: low
• Light hardened armor - kinetic damage: moderate - radiation: moderate - mass: heavy
• Lead-lined heavy armor or class - kinetic damage: moderate - radiation: highest - mass: moderate
• Heavy armor or class - kinetic damage: high - radiation: low - mass: high
• Heavy hardened armor - kinetic damage: maximum - radiation: highest - mass: heaviest

There could also be hardened versions of various components, to provide hardened versions of items like electronics or other equipment. These could be needed for travel in the Delfos sector, close to the brown dwarf, or close to any other gas giants that might be in the works. Ships without them could suffer from radiation damage and failures.