Jim nods, trying to decide how else to describe it to someone without a background in nuclear physics. Assuming Tamriel hasn't discovered such a thing, which seems likely, if radioactivity is a new concept to Shade-Seeker. Besides, magic probably has some way of doing something similar more safely, so it seems even more likely that they'd discover that first.

"There are protective whole-body suits that we use to work with it safely at lower levels, like when the core is shut down, but even then there are still time limits before it makes you sick." Assuming one has time for such a thing... Jim sometimes wonders if he would've survived entry into the warp core if he'd had the time to suit up first. Probably not. He probably would've just lingered on longer before death took him. He can't focus on the what-ifs, though; he's alive now, and there's nothing else he could've done at the time.

"Earth humans call this sort of thing a double-edged sword," he adds. "If you know how to handle it, you can use it really effectively and safely, but there's still a risk of harming yourself, no matter how small."