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Not at all, plutonium is essentially safe enough to eat. Fissile isotopes require free neutrons to undergo fission. The dangerous components of radioactive wast
by ouid 5y ago
Not at all, plutonium is essentially safe enough to eat. Fissile isotopes require free neutrons to undergo fission. The dangerous components of radioactive waste are the fission products. When I break apart a large nucleus in fission, I get random configurations of protons and neutrons as a result. These rnadom configurations are very likely to themselves be unstable.
- lazide 5y agoPlutonium is definitely not safe enough to eat, it’s chemically highly toxic. A nearly immediately lethal dose is estimated at around half a gram, though that is mostly due to the radiation effects. Think methyl mercury or organic lead salts bad.