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No. It's a case study that shows that a worst case exposure to radioactive material is not a death sentence. Are you familiar with the term "Case study" or "Ca
by dfsegoat 7y ago
No. It's a case study that shows that a worst case exposure to radioactive material is not a death sentence.
Are you familiar with the term "Case study" or "Case report"? It it is a medical/other study that follows a single individual over time. These are published daily in many medical journals.
- neuronic 7y agoWorst case? What? Those were alpha particles. You're lucky to get them through a postcard.
- rndmio 7y agoWhich is precisely why you don't want them inside your body, every alpha particle emitted by the delay will hit and be absorbed inside you, it is the worst. That's why the Russian chose Polonium to kill Litvinenko.
- baybal2 7y agoThere are alpha particles of different energies, and products of decay of emitters may well not be good for your health either. Polonium besides being acutely toxic itself, decays into lead for example.
- dreamcompiler 7y agoAlpha particles cannot penetrate intact human skin. But they're extremely dangerous if they're already inside your skin.
- adrianN 7y agoI am familiar with case studies. A single case study is often a curiosity that might motivate someone to do a proper study, but not something from which you can conclude that having Americium in your body is not as dangerous as commonly claimed.
- codewritinfool 7y agoI don't know how you can classify that as "worst case exposure".