In my misspent youth we were doing radiation hardness studies to improve spacecraft reliability.
I'd process the chips and a colleague would irradiate them over night to 107 rads using a cobalt 60 source.
One night a black widow spider decided the holder would be a good substrate for a web.
Not only was it quite, quite dead, it crumbled when my friend touched it with his (not zircon encrusted) tweezers!
Wait a minute!
Was your friend’s name Peter Parker?
Didn’t the radioactive spider bite him before it died?