Fukushima Absorbed: How Plutonium Poisons the Body

Plutonium has a half-life of about 24,000 years. And scientists have known for decades that even in small doses, it is highly toxic , leading to radiation illness, cancer and often to death. After the March nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, people the world over worried that plutonium poisoning might affect those near the compromised plant–and beyond

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Fukushima Absorbed: How Plutonium Poisons the Body