Shooting the messenger has a long, sordid history.

They’re from Charles T. Munger, a billionaire who lives in Palo Alto who champions Republican causes. It’s almost always a billionaire, not rejected representatives.

He’s not exactly uninvolved in this case. The governor of California is an ex-officio member of the board of regents, and he did appoint 10 of the current regents.

But that said, we can do better than Newsom. His primary goal is to be elected to higher office no matter what he has to say or do.

Depends heavily on the kind (and intensity) of radiation. Beta (electron/positron) and gamma (photon) generally won’t, but neutron and alpha can. Many of the atoms that become radioactive will rapidly decay, and that’s one of the mechanisms behind the impact to structural integrity.