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ELI5: how did radiation destroy machines in Chernobyl?

I remember hearing that everything from cameras to trucks stopped working because of the radiation, what's up with that?
gpt
You heard something wrong about the trucks then, those certainly didn't stop working. There's a graveyard of them because the metal became irradiated, it's not so much "they don't work" as they're now unsafe to be around because they are radioactive from induced radiation.

Only more sensitive stuff breaks - film in mechanical cameras gets exposed by radiation and semiconductor based things glitch out and over time degrade to malfunction permanently.