When crafting using radioactive ingredients at a Fabrication Station, or disposing of radioactive crafting ingredients, there will be 'ghost radiation' stuck around, either at a container, the craft bench, or following you around everywhere. You will still be irradiated even if there is nothing radioactive near you nor in your inventory.
If you want to play around with this more yourself, use the console command ShowDebug Radiation to get more information on sources of radiation in the world. I suggest using NogsLevel for your testing so as to avoid a giant list of every uranium node and deposit in the world during your testing.
Temporary Fix
To fix the issue, if you encounter it, simply reload your save. Keep in mind that this also causes some containers that should have been emitting radiation, but were not previously, to update their status.
Bug Description
When crafting using radioactive ingredients at a Fabrication Station, or disposing of radioactive crafting ingredients, there will be 'ghost radiation' stuck around, either at a container, the craft bench, or following you around everywhere. You will still be irradiated even if there is nothing radioactive near you nor in your inventory.
Explanation
This is a problem with the base game, and is already extensively documented on their bug report site.
If you want to play around with this more yourself, use the console command
ShowDebug Radiationto get more information on sources of radiation in the world. I suggest using NogsLevel for your testing so as to avoid a giant list of every uranium node and deposit in the world during your testing.Temporary Fix
To fix the issue, if you encounter it, simply reload your save. Keep in mind that this also causes some containers that should have been emitting radiation, but were not previously, to update their status.