You know what's funny? One of the "quirky" things about the Fallout Universe is how everything is radioactive because all their tech is based on fission/fusion right? It's meant to be funny like haha yeah our pollution is bad but atleast we're not poisoning ourselves with everything we do. Yet if you sub out "radioactive" for "heavy metal contamination" and "microplastics" etc that's basically 100% accurate to real life america.