Just watched Chernobyl and saw how “everything” electrical got destroyed from the radiation, but not the geiger counters. Why it that?
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I haven’t seen that and there are a variety of Geiger counters. They are either shielding the sensitive parts or there are no sensitive parts. As technology shrinks it becomes more susceptible to being destroyed by small damage. A device with ICs (integrated circuits, the chips on the boards) will be far more likely be destroyed by radiation than an old school device built with chunky resistors, capacitors, and the like. And even with ICs, there is a huge variety of trace sizes (the width of lines that conduct the electricity). Current tech has them down to a couple nanometers now. A single energized particle can completely destroy that.
If it is unshielded, it would eventually be destroyed by the radiation, and even if shielded, there has to be some part that isn’t.
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