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Yeah, even longer lived things that decay via alpha particles are dangerous when ingested... high energy atomic nuclei hitting DNA makes for bad juju.

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Of which Radon-222 and Radon-226 still are way more threat than some reactor blowing up somewhere.

edit: if you've got granite in the basement, be vefy afraid :)

Lead has infinite half life and it's very dangerous when ingested!

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