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kweks04/26/20251 replyview on HN

"Safe enough to swallow" seems like a scary oversimplification for alpha-emitting substances ?


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atemerev04/26/2025

Depends on intensity. Microgram quantities of plutonium should be generally safe (unlike, say, microgram quantities of polonium).

Not all alpha emitters are created the same.