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Originally Posted by Grand_Lunar
Oh yes, did you not read the post earlier in this thread about the person that mentioned he handled DU with his bare hands (Tunga's post, #47)?
What have you to say about that?
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I'll weigh in!
From the same source in my previous post:
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On direct contact with a DU penetrator, the skin dose rate from gamma and beta radiation is 2 mSv/h [AEPI1995 p.107]. With ICRP60's tissue weighting factor for skin of 0.01, this results in a committed effective dose of 20 µSv/h.
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So, unless you're committed to continuously handling that DU for a while (we're talking a couple days), you're not going to get close to the allowable dose. You might be in trouble if you had a DU bullet embedded in your tissue though.