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NNadir

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24. How "deadly" is it? Can you share some numbers connected with the number of deaths it's caused?

Reply to Xipe Totec (Reply #22)

Tue Aug 19, 2025, 10:29 PM

Aug 19

Is it, for instance, as "dangerous" as say, air pollution, which kills seven million people per year without a whimper of protest.

Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 (Lancet Volume 396, Issue 10258, 17–23 October 2020, Pages 1223-1249).

Personally, I'm rather fond of ¹³⁷Cs and often discuss with my son important uses for it.

I happen to be aware of deaths connected with it, but the numbers strike me as vanishingly small.

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How "deadly" is it? Can you share some numbers connected with the number of deaths it's caused? NNadir Aug 19 #24

It all depends on the concentration, doesn't it? Xipe Totec Aug 19 #27

Yes. It does depend on concentration. Shrimp naturally contain radioactive potassium 40, as well as polonium. NNadir Aug 20 #34

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