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ngmunling (Offline)
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08-09-2011, 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by acjama View Post

When ingested, radioactive particles will be passed just like any food within a day (iodine-131 excluded, of course). This is why they said plutonium is not so dangerous when ingested - it will not accumulate and it's emission is mostly weakly interactive gamma type, plus that the possible amounts for ingestion are extremely small. Not much escaped Fukushima. Of course this implies the best possible dream-land scenario that everything will be all right very very soon
PLutonium accumulate in the bones even in small amounts. So....
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