For instance, I recently watched [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ8cYheR5xo) video, and during it they explain that the bodies of the technicians at the SL-1 site had to be autopsied at great length from the doctors, because their bodies were still emitting extreme radioactivity.
how does radioactive material cause other, normally benign, material to take on radioactivity?
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Dust. Radioactive dust gets stuck in hair, lungs, saliva, stomachs, inside and on a person.
Then, when they go places, that dust continues to be radioactive, and the total amount of dust can make the “person” radioactive.
You’re not really taking any stable stuff inside the person and turning it radioactive. That can happen, but it’s unlikely. You’re just adding dust.
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