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by rsync 4732 days ago
"There is no-one in the world who has died of plutonium exposure who did not have it injected into his body"

False. The "demon core" killed two people in two separate incidents:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core

... and it was not injected, as you'll see.

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It's also impossible to track all the exposures that lead to cancer that then killed the person. A "benign" form of radiation is a hard sell these days - I'm not buying it.