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delt0r
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Err yes it does. Otherwise you get *nothing* from a banana. Most alpha and some beta emitters give you *zero* does outside the body. Since they lack the energy to penetrate the layers of dead skin.

And no it does not even get close to accumulating permanently. Many of these elements have quite short biological half lives. The best example being Iodine.