The Granite Research and Industrial Energy Facility (GRIEF) is a decommissioned research facility and factory that houses traditional nuclear fission and newer fusion power generators. It serves as the host of the wildly chaotic Radchildren.
The GRIEF was the main site where pioneering work was done on the development of F. solaris and related synthetic microorganisms. Some operational labs can still be found deep within the GRIEF.
As an Earth-funded facility, it was mostly shut down during the heat of the Great War because maintenance costs were too high for the government to continue running it. Soon after, InTech obtained the GRIEF and used it for a number of years as a base for research operations.
A large, desolate area is fenced off around the central facility. The campus is dotted with reactors partnered with large smokestacks, one of which belongs to the infamous Reactor 5. The radiation has resulted in a number of mutations to arise, in both humans and other creatures, such as the animated mutant carrot.
It is connected by gravtrain rail to Sebastopol.
Based on the Rocky Flats Plant of Denver, Colorado.
Picture modified from photography of display at the atomic bomb memorial museum, Hiroshima Japan.