Why Titan is the only colonizable world in the solar system beyond Earth

Ionizing Radiation, even radiation with enough energy to make other things radioactive, can’t get that deep.

Get a thick enough layer of ANY material and it will stop radiation, and no material’s so bad at blocking ionizing radiation that it could pass all the way through to the middle of a moon sized object, least of all aluminum (which can’t block Gamma rays very well, but can stop Alpha and Beta particles pretty readily)

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