Wi-Fi That Can Withstand a Nuclear Reactor: This receiver chip can take it
by voxadam on 4/2/2026, 5:05:36 PM
https://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics-in-nuclear-industry
Comments
by: robviren
For comparison the lifespan of a camera module was about 24-48 hours for work inside the water of the reactor near the "hot" fuel of the reactor. Fields around there were I believe on the order of 1000-5000 Rad/hr. Looked like the biggest confetti party you ever saw on the image. It was difficult for the encoder modules to keep up as well because they compressed so poorly and the reactor floors were usually hot and humid with the reactors open. I tried to make de-noising algorithms back in the day to help smooth out the noise in the reactor. Really hard to make electronics work in those places. Turns out constant bit flips and ionizing radiation is bad for hardware.
4/7/2026, 3:32:07 PM
by: HelloUsername
You didn't see wifi on the roof
4/7/2026, 1:22:22 PM