1) what is current exposure to a typical human being from natural sources of radiation? (200 millirem).
2) What is the LD-50 for humans? (450 rem instant exposure, assuming no attempt to help the person).
3) How many biogical half-lives for plutonium-239 in the human body? (about 5, by which time it is in the bone and has a biogical half-life of 10,000 years).
4) What are the different types of radiation? (alpha particles, gamma rays, beta decay electrons).
5) How deadly is Plutonium-239 and what has to be done to it to make it an effective cancer agent? (if ingested, about as deadly as caffeine; it doesn't pass across the gastrointestinal tract very well. To cause cancer in rats so it could be studied, it has to be ground down to the right size at temps of 900 C. Then special blowers have to be used to blow it through the rat cages since Plutonium is so dense it will rapidly plate out onto the cage surfaces.)
And so on and so forth. Radiation is radiation, and having an understanding of it is vital for dispelling hysterical nonsense.
I Dont want to find out either way. Hopefully we will all be sitting around speaking to our computers 20 years from now discussing this further.
Computer! Start log. Star date....oh sorry