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Ads every 2 minutes, host has zero personality and seems to have no real understanding of the safety issues he's dealing with. Not for me...
YouTube premium removes ads. If you watch an hour or more of his videos you’ll realize he’s an extremely cautious creator and knows what he’s doing.
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The crucifix is different, besides the Uranium glass it has engravings painted with something I think is tritium.
Radium more likely. Tritium is produced in small quantities in nuclear reactors and is the fuel for fusion bombs. I doubt that was used to make a crucifix.
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The crucifix is different, besides the Uranium glass it has engravings painted with something I think is tritium.
How old is it? Tritium has a half life of only 12.3 years, so if it's more than 60 years or so old, there's basically none left (around 3%), certainly not enough to make it glow. Radium is much more likely if it's still glowing.
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And I don't see any indication of this being safe :) It's radiation isn't it? Most of the stuff I encounter on a daily basis are much lower on the table. So there must be some differences.
These things aren't dangerous unless you grind them to dust and snort them. You're being blasted by space and earth radiation every single second of your life, the level of radiation emitted by these items isn't enough to be a problem
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It's not that easy to control radiation, controlling it to the level of individual decays is not possible. The closest you can get is bring it closer/further, or shield/unshield.
I'd rather use a local source in a Faraday cage, so that it's not possible for someone to influence the output at all.
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And I don't see any indication of this being safe :) It's radiation isn't it? Most of the stuff I encounter on a daily basis are much lower on the table. So there must be some differences.
Light is radiation. There is no reason to be scared without understanding
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I have serious concerns about purchasing one and being put on "a list". But this city is lackadaisical at best when it comes to industry. And we've had incidents where radioactive materials have been found in construction near homes. So IDK. I feel like I probably should have one.
Having a counter, I think it's easy to found some source around, for example in surplus stores, etc. For example, old naval compass and clock are treated with tritium. You could find also rocks near the rivers with some interesting material.
