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Reply #5: Um, it's not the amount of radiation that is of concern, it's the isotopes themselves [View All]

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DaveofCali

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Sun Mar-20-11 01:44 AM
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5. Um, it's not the amount of radiation that is of concern, it's the isotopes themselves

Edited on Sun Mar-20-11 01:45 AM by DaveofCali

Ingesting or inhaling isotopes is more harmful than the actual radiation they emit since they can get into your body, get lodged in your muscles or bones, and continually emit harmful radiation that may damage cells around it. Now, cesium and other radioactive isotopes that are fission byproducts already occur in the environment due to nuclear weapons testing, (thus one or a few particles may not be a significant health threat) but I just wanted to respond to that.

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