The only thing you can't steal is:
-levels in any tech area that requires a racial trait to open
-levels in any tech area that requires an ancient tech to open.
So, If you have:
-tech A, which requires Organic manip,
-tech B which requires tech A lev. 5, and
-tech C which requires tech B lev 2.
If you do NOT have organic manip racial trait;
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You cannot steal anything from tech A.
You cannot research tech A
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You CAN steal level ups in tech B anytime
You cannot research tech B
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You CAN steal level ups in tech C anytime.
You CAN research tech C, but only if you have stolen tech B, level 2
If you DO have organic manip, then the techs act just like normal techs.
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The hard part about that would be this: I'd have to manually add it to the "primitive" racial area AND the normal one, creating a duplicate..
..and you still couldn't steal their tech (not that you'd want to).
With the above, you should now see that you want to give the "Value-reducing radioactives collider" in a "tech B" type area.
So, the racial trait gives you level 1 in "Primitive tech"
"Primitive radioactives" requires "Primitive tech level 1", and so, is available immediately, can be stolen, but can't be researched.
"Value-reducing blah blahs" would require "primitive radioactives"
Normal radioactives extractors would require "radioactives extraction" PLUS "normal tech"
Since the primitive radioactives is a "Type B" tech, it can be stolen, giving the Normal Empire the value reducing extractor.
You could also add the tech requirement of radioactives extraction, so the primitives could make discoveries about how the radioactives interact with their environment.
This would allow the capturing Empire to gain radioactives extraction, and upgrade their existing, high tech facilities.
The primitives could know all about the structure & interactions of the resources, but not have the industry to use it fully.
The Empire would be capturing the Brick radioactives factory, find all kinds of info on the nature of radioactives & use that to improve operations at their TranspariSteel, floating rad facilies.