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Arnt an hour ago

Are you saying that plutonium isn't nearly as poisonous as people claim, and watching for hairline cracks in containment walls is a waste of time?

Or something like that?

aeonik 27 minutes ago | parent [-]

Not GP, but plutonium is overhyped in how scary it is.

Don't get me wrong, it's super deadly, but there are loads of toxins that are more deadly than plutonium. And while its radioactivity is seen as ultra scary, it's actually pretty nice, because you can at least detect it. Harder than beta or gamma, but still, it announces its presence.

How I wish I had a magic wand (spectrometer) that I could wave over my food to see if cyanide, ricin, mercury, or lead were there.

stymaar 17 minutes ago | parent [-]

This. I wish people made a Geiger counter equivalent for pm2.5 and other atmospheric pollutants, people would never get to the subway again. Breathing air in any big Asian city is much more dangerous than doing the same in Prypiat.