@boz
OOC: Thermal radiation and ionizing radiation are pretty different things. As for that other part, tiberium reacts to fire or just great quantities of heat about like how azidoazide azide(Think all of the jokes about nitro applied to themselves and cranked up about six notches) reacts to, well, anything. Hence why one of the plots is getting GDI to hit a liquid tib bomb and surrounding storage with a ion cannon strike.
ANywho it’s late so im going to head off.