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

strong radiation makes current in wire randomly. If you want your electronics to do something then that sucks. If you just make a wire attached to a speaker, you get little bleeps and bloops every time and you can hear the radiation.