Actually, more dangerous than radioactive material were lasers in our lab. With radioactive stuff, you just need to keep your distance and not eat any of the capsules. But lasers can be accidentally reflected, hit your eye, ...
@Netzach, I've handled multiple radioactive sources, including Cesium, for lab projects. But they're usually so old that they don't decay so frequently and aren't THAT harmful. Since this capsule in Australia was being moved ...
@Feynman Once at a radioactivity laboration at college, the professor asked "has anyone seen the last caesium capsule?"... things you don't wanna hear on the town square
