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DrCaleb DrCaleb:
Whoever translated it, got that backwards. Alpha and Beta decay won't penetrate skin, Gamma will go right through planets.
Digging trenches they probably inhaled it.
Almost certainly. There is a reason for the Chernobyl exclusion zone. The soil will be radioactive past the point of long term human survival for hundreds of years.
But it's still gamma radiation, from strong ionizing radiation that is the killer.