OH, C'mon man; Every adult (at least those of us who grew up during the cold War) knows that external radiation can be washed off with soap and water.

Yes, it _may_ do some internal cellular damage while it is on your skin or clothes, but depending upon the TYPE of radiation (Alpha, Beta, Gamma) it may not even be able to penetrate your body.

Plutonium gives off the worst kind: Gamma. It _will_ do cellular damage while laying on your skin or clothes. But it washes off with soap and water.

Laundry soap, doing its job as a surfactant, carries the Plutonium off the clothes and out of the washing machine with the waste water. Worst case scenario, run the washer again to flush it out.

If you do not wash the clothes, then everywhere you sit in your house gets contaminated. So when you sit on the couch, you and everyone else who sits there after you, gets exposed to the radiation that rubbed-off your contaminated clothes.

If you lay on the bed to relax, the radiation gets on the bed so you sleep in it.

As you walk around the house, radiation on your shoes gets walked all over the place.

Then, when you or your wife vacuums the house, it gets sucked into the vacuum and right back out into the room air ---- where it can be inhaled. THAT is the danger from this stuff. Inhalation or ingestion of Plutonium does horrific cellular damage inside your body causing DNA mutation and cancer.

Before you make remarks like this, you really ought to know what you're talking about.