Reply To: turn heat into electricity

[delt0r]

Oh lord. (in Leela voice). No a particle of plutonium or uranium will not give you cancer. Its too small and the dose too low. Oh and you have shit like that in dirt, in dust and especially in rocks. You are just jumping onto the radiation boggy man hype without understanding yourself.

Sv is a measure of *absorbed* dose. As in active tissue has absorbed the ionizing radiation. Your exposure is calculated taking all that into account! Yes absorbed dose including bio available materials and there respective bio half life. Bio accumulation is not magic, We understand it and can calculate and measure it. The vast majority of radioactivity from spent fuel or a bomb are in the form of elements that don’t bio accumulate much at all and all have quite short half lives.

If this is the level of understanding here… We have no hope.