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> Short of the risk of leakage

That's the main risk. A major cause of civilian radiation accidents is radioactive material accidentally mixed with unlabeled scrap [1], and if you put any noticeable amount of the stuff into products meant for untrained civilians, the rate of that happening would skyrocket.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civilian_radiation_acc...

For a particularly nasty example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samut_Prakan_radiation_acciden...



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