What would happen if I touched uranium?

What would happen if I touched uranium? This question was originally answered on Quora by Paul Wicks. read more

As uranium biochemistry is quite nice and gentle compared with Pu biochemistry, I would not expect a person to get much of a dose from a uranium radionuclide even U-232 when compared with plutonium, a transplutonium element or radium. read more

The radiation exposure you would get from touching enriched Uranium depends on many things you didn’t specify. How much, how long, how enriched, how much time did you spend close to it, how close, and so on. I doubt that you would suffer any significant damage. Enriched Uranium is valuable because it is fissile, not because it is radioactive. read more