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It's not responsible to go into nuance without a lot of preface.
In the natural environment decay is often slowed or hastened based on conditions. And, there's no human perceptible difference for many half lives: full dose = death; 1/1024th dose = death (1/2^10, 10 half lives).
But, your science is sound in a perfectly sterile environment.