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I got to go inside a reactor once (obviously after it "cooled" down) and everyone immediately got into a competition to see who could get the most rads.
Instructor trying to showing us how it works and everyone just has one hip pressed against anything that had a giant warning sign on it.
I never really thought of it before, but wearing radiation monitors right next to your junk probably isn't a good idea...
Even the first groups in barely got anything tho, it was just ultra specific monitoring so when people got cancer the government can quantify how much was work related. Like, we measured millrem, 1/1000th of a rad. But it was still a distraction trying to get the "high score" for radiation exposure.
For comparison these chips withstand 50,000 gray, which is 5,000,000 rads and 5 billion millirem...
For shit like cleaning up diasters zones via robots, this is huge. I don't know if it would ever lead to wifi robots in an operating reactor tho. Maybe in "standby" as part of energy procedures, but not activated till a switch is flipped to expose it from a secondary shielding that way it starts fresh with zero exposure and ensures it will do what it's supposed in the event it's needed.