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In my opinion, while working in the nuclear power realm, things like this happen, how else are we to study the effects of things on the human body? Use prisoners? Then all the bleeding hearts out there say that using them is "cruel and inhumane", so rather than telling everyone about what they are doing, just do it on the QT and study the effects over time.
Alpha particles are the weakest particles released from radioactivity. They can be stopped by a sheet of paper.
Beta particles are next strongest. It takes a ream of paper (100 sheets)
to stop them.
Gamma particles are the most powerful, they can travel right through the human body, and they are what cause problems in the human biology. They require large amounts of dense material, like lead to stop them. and even then sometimes they still sneak through.
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