 Quote by sean_omahoney
@Moribus
What would happen if you were to touch nuclear waste out of a plant?
(It's my homework assignment.) 
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You wouldn't be able to. A rad engineering co-worker of mine once did a calculation: if you placed an unshielded spent fuel assembly at one end of a football field, and starting from the other end, ran right towards it, you would drop dead of radiation poisoning at about the 15 yard line.