Why doesnt a geiger counter get destroyed by the radiation, while everything else does?

Question

Just watched Chernobyl and saw how “everything” electrical got destroyed from the radiation, but not the geiger counters. Why it that?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Radiation interact with eletronics by creating ” random” currents in conductors, this messes up sensitive eletronics if they are not shielded.

the counter itself, in overly simplistic terms.,is not much more than a speaker of sorts connected to a wire and what you hear is the currents being picked up on the wire.