And the experience we do have with plutonium compounds, is limited by the fact people die awfully fast when they’re anywhere near them. The US nuclear weapons

And the experience we do have with plutonium compounds, is limited by the fact people die awfully fast when they’re anywhere near them. The US nuclear weapons program had several hundred people who were accidentally exposed to measurable doses of plutonium. Those workers did not die at the time. The government set up The United States Transuranium and Uranium Registries (USTUR) to track long term health outcomes for such exposed workers. https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-spokane/uploads/sites/1058/2024/06/USTUR-0225-06.pdf https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-spokane/uploads/sites/1058/2024... When I worked with the USTUR, they had also acquired some data from former workers in the Soviet nuclear weapons complex. The most exposed workers there received higher doses than any American workers. Even then health impacts were not immediately fatal. Here's the NIH summary on plutonium toxicology: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK599402/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK599402/ It's a lot to read, but there has yet to be a human plutonium exposure accident so severe that the exposed individual died quickly. Or at least no published accident of that sort. There is however a dose-dependent risk of lung cancer from inhaling aerosolized plutonium.