Why does radiation cause little flashing white dots to appear all over the screen from footage that was shot in the radiation?

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I just watched the documentary on Netflix about covering up one of the Chernobyl reactor cores. There was a lot of video shot inside the building that had thousands of dancing white dots on the screen caused by the radiation. Why would supercharged shooting particles effect the camera and not the human eye?

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Fun fact: It DOES effect the eye. There are several reports of astronauts seeing flashes of light with their eyes closed. This has been attributed to cosmic rays that were completely shielded impacting on the retina.

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