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They did WHAT? Pu-238 pacemaker.


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Wait, does that mean people with radioactive pacemakers have to have radioactive hazard labels???

AFAIK, no, but I might be wrong. The devices themselves must have the sign, though, just like any container with material more radioactive than the environment.

You could barely distinguish people with plutonium-238 pacemakers using a Geiger counter even if you placed the probe right on their chest. I presume it would require extended time and statistical approach to ascertain it. Hence they do not represent a radioactive danger. Sensors on airports etc. couldn't catch it.

They are only a potential radiological danger... if they get blasted into tiny bits in some explosion, and the pacemaker's integrity is destroyed.

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