The risks of plutonium may be somewhat overblown - here's some resources
that, if nothing else, should help put you to sleep ;^)
Cliff Ober
http://www.powerup.com.au/~dominion/ff/p22.htm
http://www.llnl.gov/csts/publications/sutcliffe/
http://www.ans.neep.wisc.edu/~ans/point_source/AEI/may95/plutonium_eff.html
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/sciobs95/sciobs95-03.html
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Subject: Re: filmscanners: On dust
That better be polonium-210 not plutonium! Plutonium is so dangerous
one atom is enough to cause cancer. It is used in nuclear power plants.
Polonium-210 (probably isn't pure, anyway) still isn't "safe" (no
ionizing radiation is) it is probably similar in danger to Americium
which is used in smoke detectors, but you don't keep a smoke detector
next to your hand hold it regularly... and the problem of discarding it
after you are done with it is a consideration as well...