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Re:I’m in Wyoming to celebrate the next nuclear breakthrough by Waterluvian on Saturday May 06, 2023 @08:25AM (#35840678)
Someone smarter may correct me but my understanding is that radioactivity doesn’t transfer like that. Contamination means for the isotope to find its way into a system (like a human body) and then stay there, radiating harmful particles from the inside.

If you were to be contaminated by ingesting some radioactive sodium, it would still decay and be gone within days.

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Re:I’m in Wyoming to celebrate the next nuclear breakthrough by hermitcrab on Saturday May 06, 2023 @01:11PM (#35843313)
The fact that it decays quickly also means that it would be very damaging if it got inside you somehow before it had decayed.
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