This sort of perpetuates the same myth about Plutonium being dangerous covered in the article.
If you have the right plutonium isotope, in the correct shape and compress it just right.. it is a very dangerous metal.
if you have a small piece of it, it is rather harmless given it is an alpha emitter and can be stopped via single sheet of paper.
Tritium falls under the same category.
If you have a nuclear device, and put tritium in it, the tritium participates in the reaction and effectively "boosts" the yield.
If you have some Tritium, it is a weak beta emitter and you will either exhale it out (Tritium gas) or urinate it if it is in liquid form.
Like all radioactive material it does increase your chances of cancer, but you would need a fair amount of it.
Given Tritium is an isotope of Hydrogen, it isn't "like water" it IS water..but radioactive.
water - H2O
Heavy water - D2O
Super heavy water - T2O
If you have the right plutonium isotope, in the correct shape and compress it just right.. it is a very dangerous metal.
if you have a small piece of it, it is rather harmless given it is an alpha emitter and can be stopped via single sheet of paper.
Tritium falls under the same category.
If you have a nuclear device, and put tritium in it, the tritium participates in the reaction and effectively "boosts" the yield.
If you have some Tritium, it is a weak beta emitter and you will either exhale it out (Tritium gas) or urinate it if it is in liquid form.
Like all radioactive material it does increase your chances of cancer, but you would need a fair amount of it.
Given Tritium is an isotope of Hydrogen, it isn't "like water" it IS water..but radioactive.
water - H2O Heavy water - D2O Super heavy water - T2O