The sad part is, we really have gone in to clean reactor compartments. We even wrote our names in the lead shielding.
Hydrogen (whatever isotope) and helium don't have a smell, so in one respect, the answer would be `nothing'. On the other hand, if you're in an oxygen-containing atmosphere near nuclear fusion, there's probably some ozone floating about, so the answer may be `laser printers'. I think the best answer, though, is. . .
ARGH! MY NOSE IS BURNING DUE TO THE LARGE AMOUNT OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION BEING RELEASED IN ITS VICINITY!
In the radioactive parts of the US DOE lab that I used to work at, it smells a lot like a machine that cuts plastic. Sort of that smell in a machine shop when someone is cutting plexiglass. Mix in laser printer, or maybe one of those really old copiers also, but a lot stronger. Thanks to neil for helping me place that part of the smell. There is also something else, something bad, but I can't relate it to anything else in the world. It is a bit like spent model rocket engines, but different.
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