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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;desertgem, post: 1226512, member: 15199&quot;]<p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/plutonium.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/plutonium.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/plutonium.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Actually, being a strong alpha emitter, it does pose radioactivity danger, but the biological toxicity has been over stated.&nbsp; The worse seems to be by wound contamination, but its high water insolubility as an oxide and molecular weight makes it very difficult to&nbsp; be absorbed through ingestion. Not arguing that is is harmless, far from it, but being alpha emitter, shielding is rather easy compared to gamma or other radiation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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