There's a big difference between radiative energy exposure in your tissues and radionuclides inside your tissues. I'd rather get a dose of radiation from CS-137 than have CS-137 in my body. Having radioactive particles inside your tissues, even if it is low in radioactivity, is far more damaging than having been exposed to radiative energy. The proximity to your cells makes all the difference. Radioactive material inside you is bad.
Think of it like the jewflu spike protein. Do you want that shit inside you? If the spike protein lasted for thousands or millions of years, would you like a growing quantity of it existing and having to be stored long term?
So what you're saying is eating the the Thorium-232 from gas mantles probably isn't a good idea?
So what you're saying is eating the the Thorium-232 from gas mantles probably isn't a good idea?
Only for puny humans. You and I can continue eat them as a light snack or part of a molecularly balanced breakfast.
Oh good. They're especially tasty these days as they're not being made anymore.
Also to add on to this: there's three primary types of nuclear energy. Alpha, Beta, and Gamma. Gamma is the bad stuff. Beta is bad but can be blocked with simple containment like thin lead. Alpha is largely harmless and can't even pass through air. But if an alpha source gets into your body, your fucked. It's why radon gas is so dangerous. You breathe it in and it has direct access to blood vessels and is easily distributed through the rest of your body. Russia assassinated a dude a bunch of years back by hiding an alpha source in a piece of sushi he was eating
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