One gram of uranium has 20 billion calories – radiation aside, would that many calories at once kill you?

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One gram of uranium has 20 billion calories – radiation aside, would that many calories at once kill you?

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So to pick apart your question.

We need to address a few things.

First, Calorie is a unit of energy. When they say 1 gram of uranium has 20 billion calories. They mean that when it *under goes fission* it will release 20 billion calories. Not that if you eat it you will get that many calories.

Two, your body can only extract energy from certain things. That’s why you can build a fire with wood and release a lot of energy. But you wouldn’t be able to just eat the wood and get the same.amount of energy. In fact, your body cant do.anything with it. You would get zero calories out of eating wood.

The same thing would happen here. You get zero calories because the process your body is using wont release that energy.