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The more efficient route- at least I think so anyway, would be for a variation of photosynthesis to use background radiation the same way plants and algae use visible light. But even then the chloroplasts will have to be on the outer most parts of each and every cell to shield the nucleus and organelles from ratiation. And that still leaves the cell membrane to suffer damage when high energy particles break down the molecular structure and even individual atoms within the phsopholipids as well as membrane proteins and carbohydrates.
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