Originally posted by Charlotte DeBel
Storm has no or almost no control over radiation AFAIK, the solar wind is nothing more than stream of ionized particles (it includes electrons and alpha particles, but it has nothing to do with gamma-particles and other deadly components of a nuke).
Solar wind can be blocked by simple metal-foil. Try to use a foil to shield against a nuclear explosion...it's the weirdest way of suicide.Storm controls neither gamma nor betha radiation, and alpha-particles aren't the major thing to cause a damage- they can be stopped by clothing and skin, and Storm's powers can prevent them from being breathed in in very believeable way.
So there's nothing odd about alpha particles. But nuclear components aren't just alpha particles and hydrogene ions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_wind
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon
This is incorrect about Storm's powers.
In the 1991 80 page Winter Special from Marvel, Storm blocks solar flares from the sun that would have wiped out the entire planet by altering the entire planets ecosystem while also tapping into a machine that only shoots gamma rays and pulling out enough gamma rays to envelop the planetwhile at the same time using the energies from the Earth on a global level together to form a gamma-shield to block the sun blasts here:
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This stunt left out in deep space unprotected as it destroyed her space-ship. She can only survive a few minutes out in space unaided as it was established between Uncanny 160 and 165 (one of those issues). This stunt came from Uncanny 165. In Uncanny 166, we see her floating aimlessly in deep space in the last moments of her life when the Acanti find her and heal her. Here is the scan in Uncanny 166 that gives a flashback to what happened after this scene in 165:
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