[CamperBob2]

If it were radioactive enough to do that, you'd have a much bigger problem than some networking flakiness.

[VanTheBrand]

I don’t disagree but your comment made it sound impossible which it isn’t.

[arcfour]

Well technically a nuclear bomb would also degrade the jacket of fiber cabling pretty badly, but we don't really concern ourselves with that since it means you're dead and the house is gone anyways.

[CamperBob2]

It absolutely is, for all practical purposes. Alpha radiation won't go more than 100 um or so into plastic.