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[–] 8 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Uranium glass is relatively safe reddit assured me, for whatever that is worth.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    Naturally occuring Uranium is, really, not very radioactive. You can even eat it and have it pass through your digestive system without any significant negative impact - there was a scientist who (slightly facetiously) used to do this in lectures to prove the safety of nuclear power and lived to a ripe old age. That said, it's not exactly advisable.

    We use it in power plants because it's fissile, not because it's radioactive, it's easier to sustain chain reactions with constant output.

    Spent nuclear fuel, however, is extremely radioactive because when we fission Uranium it splits into very radioactive isotopes of Caesium, Iodine, Xenon etc. plus a ton of minor actinides.

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