08-08-2016, 07:55 PM
(08-08-2016, 06:25 PM)Surge Wrote:(08-08-2016, 06:22 PM)Rahizel Wrote: Sufficient and prolonged bombardment of radiation can in theory degrade concrete, but that's probably like cosmic ray from a qasar intense.Robo-Surge is built primarily from Tecarian specs and a few discrete upgrades by 753. The Tecarians are heavily acclimated to long term operation under intense cosmic and background radiation. Though the important electronics and power plants are usually protected with precedence over structural elements.
Rad proof huh? I doubt it. It is possible to be highly resistant though.
Alpha, Beta, and Gamma radiations all degrade electronics by causing electrons and in some cases entire atomic nuclei to be dislocated from the crystal lattice. Over time this changes the electrical properties of the circuitry until it begins to malfunction, and eventually fails catastrophically.
Current day rad-hardened electronics attempt to mitigate this by making use of lower circuit densities than those found in consumer electronics because it was found that the larger components are less sensitive to damage from radiation exposure. Even with that, they still fail eventually.
But when you consider neutron radiation, things get ugly. Neutrons interact with matter by either bouncing off of it, splitting it, or being absorbed by it. Bouncing off isn't terrible, this only dislocates atoms and can break molecules. Splitting it is pretty bad, this usually makes radioactive isotopes and again removes atoms from their respective molecules.
The worst is actually neutron capture. Neutron capture is in fact how you transmute lead into gold- and this was demonstrated in the laboratory. It actually changes the element of the affected atom from one isotope to another. And as things happen to work, most of the resulting isotopes are unstable- they become radioactive themselves. Which puts you in a situation where you can't turn it off anymore. Even if it is removed from the proximity of the radiation source, it has become radioactive itself and will continue to be until the half-life of the isotopes that were created by splitting or capturing have decayed.
And any sort of atoms knocked around in your genetic material makes your cancer risk go through the roof, and if enough damage was done you'll be dead within a week if not a few hours.
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