In smoke detectors and tritium watches the quantity of radioactive material is minuscule compared to the beta emitter in the battery, as in multiple orders of magnitude less. None of the things you mentioned have nuclear material in any significant quantity. If you swallowed or inhaled this battery you’d be exposed to significant amounts of radiation.
“If you swallowed or inhaled this battery you’d be exposed to significant amounts of radiation.” It’s beta radiation, which can be stopped by a later of tin foil, I think. So yeah if you ate the source itself that would be bad, but if you eat the battery with the casing, probably much less bad?
Sure, but they are radiation sources and beyond microwaves, “nuclear” material exists in several consumer products, so that isn’t really a reason we haven’t had consumer nuclear batteries.
Can’t imagine why we don’t put nuclear material in consumer products, seems practical.
You mean like Microwaves? Or Smoke detectors? Granite countertops etc. Or watches, and Energy Efficient CFLs?
In smoke detectors and tritium watches the quantity of radioactive material is minuscule compared to the beta emitter in the battery, as in multiple orders of magnitude less. None of the things you mentioned have nuclear material in any significant quantity. If you swallowed or inhaled this battery you’d be exposed to significant amounts of radiation.
A microwave is not an ionizing radiation source.
I think you’re in trouble if you swallow or inhale any batteries.
“If you swallowed or inhaled this battery you’d be exposed to significant amounts of radiation.” It’s beta radiation, which can be stopped by a later of tin foil, I think. So yeah if you ate the source itself that would be bad, but if you eat the battery with the casing, probably much less bad?
There is nothing nuclear about microwaves.
Sure, but they are radiation sources and beyond microwaves, “nuclear” material exists in several consumer products, so that isn’t really a reason we haven’t had consumer nuclear batteries.
“Drinking hot tea is safe so drinking boiling water, which is also hot, should also be safe”
The quantity of radioactive material is extremely relevant to this discussion.