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Re:If I ingest a grain of sand size piece of the Chernobyl R... by DuskStar on Sunday June 02, 2019 @03:54PM (#20077672)
For #1, about 5% of the reactor core was spread outside the building through a series of explosions. (which is a large part of why reactors in the western world all have containment structures) So while most of the core is in a couple of mounds within the reactor building, quite a bit got spread around.

Regarding #2, this is a very small fragment, and there are a lot of them around. Eating this wouldn't do much to you, but 10x a day for a year? Hello cancer.

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Re:If I ingest a grain of sand size piece of the Chernobyl R... by dopamean on Sunday June 02, 2019 @06:17PM (#20078674)
Who would be eating that much of it 10 times a day for a year?
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Re:If I ingest a grain of sand size piece of the Chernobyl R... by DuskStar on Sunday June 02, 2019 @06:28PM (#20078748)
If you were living in that area and eating local food, such levels wouldn't be impossible to hit - especially if you account for the fact that 'grain of sand sized solid chunk' is pretty close to minimally bioavailable, and so you could hit equivalent dosages with significantly less material.
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