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It's quite dangerous, the magnetron can kill very easily. There's this youtuber called styropyro who's done some really cool stuff with them though
He's a treasure. The inside of a microwave is insane in its casual dangers. Like that HV capacitor, or, more insidiously, the beryllium insulator that can cause berrylliosis if broken and inhaled.
Sounds like you don't even have to do anything to make it dangerous. Heck, let's just chuck broken microwaves at the Teslas.