Science people needed.
As far as I understand Uranium eventually decays into Lead. Would that lead still be considered radioactive and dangerous afterwards?
Example: There's a lump of uranium and a Character picks it up to absorb the energy. (This is fantasy based but I want it to at least somewhat follow science) This absorption turns it into lead (decays it super fast). Could the character then pass it to his friend with no ill effects?
The main idea I'm going for is to have this character be able to clean up nuclear waste by absorbing the radiation. Is it plausible that in doing so they would just leave a fine dusting of lead everywhere if a bomb had been exploded? I know air doesn't transmit the alpha particles well and neither does water but for fantasy sake they would just stand in the crater and suck it all up kind of like a vacuum; turning the radioactive particles into their decayed states and making it habitable again.
As far as I understand Uranium eventually decays into Lead. Would that lead still be considered radioactive and dangerous afterwards?
Example: There's a lump of uranium and a Character picks it up to absorb the energy. (This is fantasy based but I want it to at least somewhat follow science) This absorption turns it into lead (decays it super fast). Could the character then pass it to his friend with no ill effects?
The main idea I'm going for is to have this character be able to clean up nuclear waste by absorbing the radiation. Is it plausible that in doing so they would just leave a fine dusting of lead everywhere if a bomb had been exploded? I know air doesn't transmit the alpha particles well and neither does water but for fantasy sake they would just stand in the crater and suck it all up kind of like a vacuum; turning the radioactive particles into their decayed states and making it habitable again.