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Here's a photo series from 2005 at a Swedish nuclear fuel facility showing how uranium turns into fuel pellets and fuel rod bundles: https://www.iaea.org/newsc

Here's a photo series from 2005 at a Swedish nuclear fuel facility showing how uranium turns into fuel pellets and fuel rod bundles: https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/multimedia/photoessays/training-nuclear-watchdogs-0 https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/multimedia/photoessays/train... At all stages the material can be handled with no more protection than gloves. It is roughly as dangerous as handling lead fishing weights until the fuel actually attains criticality.

IdeaHamstir 9y ago
It still produces a fair bit of alpha, so avoid particulate ingestion.
- MertsA 9y ago
  I don't know why people downvoted this, it's entirely correct. Although I guess the larger concern than the radiation would be the heavy metal poisoning but in any case it's still fine, just treat it like you would any other heavy metal.