Plutonium pacemakers? Plutonium decays very slowly and kills very quickly, your gran must have had a few hundred pounds of lead shielding inside to stop her from the radiation.
Plutonium decays by alpha particle emission, which is easily stopped by minor shielding. It normally does not penetrate epidermis. You really need to learn about subjects you want to comment on.
Plutonium pacemakers? Plutonium decays very slowly and kills very quickly, your gran must have had a few hundred pounds of lead shielding inside to stop her from the radiation.
Plutonium decays by alpha particle emission, which is easily stopped by minor shielding. It normally does not penetrate epidermis. You really need to learn about subjects you want to comment on.
No, just a few grams.
https://osrp.lanl.gov/pacemakers.shtml
She had a Medtronics model. Hers was similar to this: https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/miscellaneous/pacemaker.html
When she died in '06, we notified the mortuary and they handled recovery with OSRP.