Re:Collectors who hunt down radioactive glassware
by labster on Sunday May 23, 2021 @06:07PM
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It’s actually fairly easy to own radioactive things. Bananas are fairly cheap, and potassium has a high enough radioactive fraction to give your body a few positron emissions a second. Of course your risk is still higher from slipping on the banana peel hilariously.
It actually surprised me that you can buy uranium glass online on ebay or etsy. It's not controlled or anything, and there are some very weird old curios manufactured last century. (https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m...). I bought a tiny little salt cellar this way once the desire to own something radioactive overcame me.
NileRed even made a video of manufacturing his own uranium glass https://youtu.be/RGw6fXprV9U?t=1048