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Re:The Woman Who Ate Chernobyl's Apples by Symmetry on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @10:15AM (#9420544)
It's really only neutrons that can transmute other elements into radioactive ones. Charged particle or EM radiation might damage your body's chemicals but they won't harm your atoms.

Generally a whole body dose of 1 sievert will increase your odds of getting cancer by 10% over your life. I don't know how much she's been exposed to but while my guess is that while future cancer is a concern it really isn't a sure thing.

Re:The Woman Who Ate Chernobyl's Apples by iSnow on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @12:18PM (#9421470)
> Charged particle or EM radiation might damage your body's chemicals

Which is probably the biggest problem for biological systems - alterations in the DNA caused by radioactivity.