--- description: A PhD student sends a camera through an industrial radiator title: GoPro Camera Goes Through Dangerous Radiation: Video image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcff4c9dee2b9f879/698767b9cd1bba7a826f3698/hero4-gopro.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch a GoPro Camera Go Through Dangerous Radiation  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 30, 2014 7:31 PM CUT  GoPro Hero4 GoPro Hero4Carter Dow Photography/GoPro  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 30, 2014 7:31 PM CUT What effect do lethal levels of radiation have on film? One PhD student with some free time decided to find out by enclosing a GoPro in a 1/4″ lead box and sending it through an electron beam irradiator, according to [_Digg_](http://digg.com/video/watch-a-gopro-travel-through-heavy-radiation?utm%5Fsource=digg&utm%5Fmedium=email "undefined"). Visible in the clip are calcite samples that start to glow as they pass through the beam, but the most interesting part of the video isn’t what the camera sees, but what happens to the actual camera itself — look for a crackling burst of fuzzy, blue-colored scrambled footage around the 1-minute mark. \[[_Digg_](http://digg.com/video/watch-a-gopro-travel-through-heavy-radiation?utm%5Fsource=digg&utm%5Fmedium=email "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3610929/watch-video-gopro-dangerous-radiation/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3610929/watch-video-gopro-dangerous-radiation/"},"headline":"Watch a GoPro Camera Go Through Dangerous Radiation","datePublished":"2014-11-30T19:31:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:14:53.634Z","description":"A PhD student sends a camera through an industrial radiator","url":"https://time.com/3610929/watch-video-gopro-dangerous-radiation/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcff4c9dee2b9f879/698767b9cd1bba7a826f3698/hero4-gopro.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcff4c9dee2b9f879/698767b9cd1bba7a826f3698/hero4-gopro.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"GoPro Hero4","caption":"GoPro Hero4","creditText":"Carter Dow Photography/GoPro","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3610929/watch-video-gopro-dangerous-radiation/","name":"Watch a GoPro Camera Go Through Dangerous Radiation"}}]}] ```