Why Is radioisotope so dangerous List the items that you observed and indicate t
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Why Is radioisotope so dangerous List the items that you observed and indicate the type of radiation that is being emitted. Watch Dial arrow 1495 cpm/99 mmg Coleman lantem mante arrow 425cpm/9 Alpha Vintage valium glass arrow 146 cpm/Alpha Plutonium-239 is a man-made element, created in nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons. It is a highly radioactive alpha-emitter and poses acute dangers to human health. Given that alpha radiation can be stopped by a piece of paper, why is this radioisotope so dangerous? Claims & Evidence:Explanation / Answer
Plutonium, Pu-239, has a half-life of 24,100 years [ half tife = the time it will take for half of the stuff to radioactively decay]
Pu-239 is so dangerous because plutonium-239 released to the environment today will stick around for the next half a million years.
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