How does radiation poisoning work? Because if the atoms get irradiated, then maybe the 'gate tries to reassemble with the "wrong" isotopes? (If I'm remembering it correctly, when irradiated, the atom loses an alpha particle. Which I think changes the isotope, but it's been awhile since I had to pay attention to radiation.) If the 'gate is reading the irradiated atoms when it saves your state when you go through, it, theoretically, should reassemble you with the irradiated atoms. Uh, somehow.