Would exposing someone to uranium or plutonium make people feel

>>8261161
how much?

>>8261161
no but plutonium feels a bit warm

No. Even with heavy exposure (eg roof of the Chernobyl reactor shoveling radioactive graphite) it would take a number of hours before you found yourself curled up into a ball puking up blood and convulsing somewhere.

>>8261161
You won't get instantaneously sick from radiation unless you stand next to a really strong source (like the Chernobyl reactor right after it exploded).

>>8261165
>dude why is that molten metal glowing blue?

You need >100,000 rem for that effect, plutonium won't do that. You'd need a mass of some artificial element.

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This subcritical mass of plutonium was involved in two criticality incidents in the 1940s at Los Alamos. Several dudes died after copping far too many neutrons while handling it. Google 'the demon core'.

One guy reported a blue flash (caused by ionisation in the jelly of his eyes) and a warm feeling across his skin when he was exposed to neutron radiation for a fraction of a second. He died 9 days later.

>>8261307
"Woops."

>>8261161
No. You need truly absurd amounts of radiation to do that.

For that matter, uranium and plutonium (as long as you've got a small subcritical piece) aren't even that bad; people handle plutonium with just gloves. They mainly emit alpha particles, which require only minor shielding - for low-level alpha emitters, the oils and dead cells on your skin will suffice. (They both throw off a bit of gamma, and plutonium also emits some neutrons, but nothing too bad for a brief exposure.)

However, alpha particles are extremely dangerous if they're emitted *inside* you, so plutonium is usually also handled in a glove box or with breathing equipment to ensure there's no chance of breathing in any dust. Both uranium and plutonium are extremely toxic, chemically, in any case.

When the contents of the Chernobyl reactor spewed out and formed the "elephant's foot". 30 seconds of exposure would make you severely ill for weeks let alone the long term impacts. Five minutes exposure was a two day death sentence.

The damage of handling less highly radioactive objects won't be so immediately apparent, but you could be left with what looks like sunburn on your hands if you held it for some time. Low level stuff is dangerous because it's effects are not apparent, you could be inhaling or ingesting it for a long time and the effects wouldn't be obvious until you're getting cancers. Filming in radioactive desert did for John Wayne and half the crew of The Conqueror.