Potassium-40 is a naturally occuring isotope of Potassium. Banana's are rich with Potassium. Radioactive waste is stored in bright yellow bags which is why bananas are wrapped in yellow .
Posted on 10/12/2026 6:53:22 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple
In the 1930s, thousands of American families served Sunday dinner on glowing green glass, entirely unaware they were eating off the raw material for an atomic bomb. Decades before it became the most feared and heavily regulated substance on Earth, the key ingredient for nuclear weapons was routinely pressed into cheap teacups and fruit bowls. So how did a radioactive metal meant to shatter cities end up as a cheerful decoration on the family dinner table?
“BUSTER BROWN SHOES” ???
yeah, they’re ones that hand painted radium paint on those watch faces ... they’d lick the tips of their paint brushes to get a fine point on them, and they all ended up with hideous cancers that disfigured and killed them from all the radium they were inadvertently eating ...
I recall a lot of Buster Brown Shoes commercials 3 times a year; Back to School, Xmas and Easter.
I think the logo showed a Pit Bull (!!) and a child, both drawn in the 1930’s Barney Google cartoon style.
Uranium, element #92 , was discovered around the same time as the American Revolution. Plutonium, element #94 , was created by an American and was the power source of the first and only probe to visit Pluto.
Potassium-40 is a naturally occuring isotope of Potassium. Banana's are rich with Potassium. Radioactive waste is stored in bright yellow bags which is why bananas are wrapped in yellow .
Fiesta Ware was also slightly radioactive.
Granite countertops produce radioactivity.
“Radium Girls” hardcover BOOKS came out this year.
“Radium Girls” applied the large glowing hands and hour-markings on U.S. Navy ships’ clocks.
(Of which I have a large collection...)
This whole show is highly dramatizing all kind of Uranium effects.
Uranium is completely natural, and so is radioactivity.
People just have this hysterical reaction to this invisible radiation which “could” cause cancers or even death.
And atomic bomb could be made out of it!
Society and media are just hysterically scaring people.
There was a Radon scare not that long ago.
Even the radiation standards are orders of magnitude too strict.
Maybe we should once look critically on the reality of radiation and stop scaring uniformed population!
“Wrist watches with glowing radium hands and dials were produced from the early 1900s through the mid-1960s, using a radioactive mixture that illuminated timepieces in the dark without requiring external light or batteries.”
Yep - and they discovered the danger when the people (mostly women) who painted the numbers with the material started developing mouth cancer - because the brush tips had to be very fine and pointed and the best/easiest way to maintain the shape was to roll it on their tongues.
Mrs L has a small but nice collection of uranium glass.
Cool stuff and harmless.
L
The glassware is quite pretty......and has a nice variety.
Dad had a science kit, that had uranium in it...
Folks,
You are building an atomic bomb in WWII. To build this bomb, you need the yellow cake. Where is it and how do you quietly get to it? You don’t want to alarm the populace or inform the enemy. The video partially answers that.
That is the interesting part of the video. Yes it is AI and repeated and long. But there are nuggets of information even in AI.
Ahhh, Uranium Glass — “we’ll leave the light on for you”
So did I! Growing up, as a 7 or 8 year old I remember holding it close to my eye several times before I went to sleep, to see if I could see the little atomic explosions that gave the light. I could have sworn I could!
Now, as a 70 year old, I have had cataracts and had 'em removed in both eyes, and keratoconus in (B) eyes too..
Coincidence?
Coincidence?
But what will happen if you drink Radithor out of it?
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