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<blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 9307614" data-attributes="member: 6799660">Uranium emits a lot more alpha and beta radiation than gamma. Water absorbs the first two handily. It also attenuates gamma better than you might think (super dense and high-atomic-number material like lead only provide 20-30% better protection-by-mass than less dense material like water and concrete). The big concern would be, as you say, ingesting some particulates so that they would do ongoing unshielded emission from within you.&nbsp; I didn't see the series, so I don't know what was said. That said, in broad strokes, there's no reason not to have such concerns. Ionizing radiation can cause genetic and epigenetic damage. It happens more to rapidly dividing cells, and ova are effectively in stasis between when a woman is born and when the individual ovum undergoes follicle activation. Thus less of a concern than, say, male gametes. On the other hand, if she ingested actual radiological material which would still be actively producing radiation during ovulation or gestation (or breastfeeding), then those would all be genuine concerns.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie the Duck, post: 9307614, member: 6799660"] Uranium emits a lot more alpha and beta radiation than gamma. Water absorbs the first two handily. It also attenuates gamma better than you might think (super dense and high-atomic-number material like lead only provide 20-30% better protection-by-mass than less dense material like water and concrete). The big concern would be, as you say, ingesting some particulates so that they would do ongoing unshielded emission from within you. I didn't see the series, so I don't know what was said. That said, in broad strokes, there's no reason not to have such concerns. Ionizing radiation can cause genetic and epigenetic damage. It happens more to rapidly dividing cells, and ova are effectively in stasis between when a woman is born and when the individual ovum undergoes follicle activation. Thus less of a concern than, say, male gametes. On the other hand, if she ingested actual radiological material which would still be actively producing radiation during ovulation or gestation (or breastfeeding), then those would all be genuine concerns. [/QUOTE]

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