<story><title>If I ingest a grain of sand size piece of the Chernobyl Reactor No.4 core</title><url>https://www.quora.com/If-I-ingest-a-grain-of-sand-size-piece-of-the-Chernobyl-Reactor-No-4-core-what-would-happen-to-my-body/answer/Carl-Willis-2?share=1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>henearkr</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m baffled at the fact that the answer is entirely about radioactivity. Rather than that, uranium in itself is highly toxic (I mean, chemically).</text></comment>
<story><title>If I ingest a grain of sand size piece of the Chernobyl Reactor No.4 core</title><url>https://www.quora.com/If-I-ingest-a-grain-of-sand-size-piece-of-the-Chernobyl-Reactor-No-4-core-what-would-happen-to-my-body/answer/Carl-Willis-2?share=1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>atemerev</author><text>This is purely hypothetical, as like he noticed, the fuel particle is not soluble in gastric acid. The damage would be much less than that.&lt;p&gt;Inhaling the similar amount of finely powdered radioactive dust is another story, though.</text></comment>