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2026-04-14 21:12 UTC

@bob_zim @cabbagebeets @notjustbikes The electrical power you use in a year would be equicalent to around 40g of enriched uranium. This would very very likely kill you. "generating a 1,000,000 kilowatt hours (1 GWh), about the same electricity a person uses in their lifetime, requires 6.8 pounds of enriched uranium fuel." https://www.freeingenergy.com/math/nuclear-fuel-uranium-weight-pound-kwh-mwh-m125/ "Uranium mainly targets the kidneys: [...] intakes of more than 50 milligrams can cause renal failure and death" https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/what-if/what-if-ate-uranium.htm #nuclear

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@bob_zim@infosec.exchange 2026-04-14 22:01

@billiglarper That’s talking about intake of powder or salts. Those forms can accumulate in the body, particularly in bones, where they can release energy over time. Spent fuel pellets are a refined metal, which the human body can’t really absorb at all, and the digestive tract doesn’t keep anything for long. 40g of uranium metal is a hair over two cubic centimeters. Split it in two, seal it with the ratios of lead and concrete normally used for spent fuel, and it would be two large pills, but not especially dangerous ones in any regard. Negligible risk of heavy metal accumulation. There could be an increased risk of GI cancers, depending on how active the fuel still is.

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