Uranium prospector ☢️🇺🇸
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Many people who follow my page don’t realize that I also spent time staking uranium mining claims. It’s something I’m genuinely proud of, I consider myself a uranium prospector in addition to being an amateur nuclear physicist.
I began selling uranium ore as a way to fund my growing collection of radioactive antiques and to support my ongoing outreach and education efforts online. There’s a deep well of radiological history and lore behind what I share here.
Thank you for being so kind and supportive of meeeee, it truly means a lot. ☢️💕
I was hesitant to post this antique pitcher I found online at first because I knew the symbol would attract certain comments I dislike, but it turns out there’s a lot more history behind this piece than people might think!
Apparently, this pitcher has a uranium glaze, which is why it’s pegging my Ludlum on 100x scale and glows a bright green under my blacklight.
With that being said before anyone jumps to conclusions, the swastika on this mug isn’t necessarily Nazi related because it’s actually from the 1900’s. In this scenario it truly is just an ancient symbol that’s been used for thousands of years in various cultures to represent good luck, prosperity, and well being which mind you was LONG before the Nazis appropriated it in the 20th century.
This is just a fascinating little piece of history I came across, with an unexpected twist and definitely a first for me. ☢️
You really never know who are in the comments on this site, jeez that’s impressive. ☢️
I’m a EE by training, but somehow found myself in the plasma physics world during grad school (might have been because of the IEC fusor I built in undergrad, idk).
After I published my first plasma/nuclear physics paper in an academic journal, the next time I went to visit my brother in Israel (maybe 3 or 4 months later?), I was stopped at border control for the first time ever in my life and asked a bunch of security questions.
Some of the questions included asking where I went to school and synagogue growing up, how I know Hebrew, etc. Standard Israel departure security questions, never experienced them entering the country though. Then they asked me what I did. I said electrical engineer.
“Any other kind of engineering?”
“Some computer engineering when I was younger.”
“Sir, do you do any other kind of engineering?”
“No.”
They really wanted me to say nuclear and I was not going to answer that.
Pics related, they’re from my first foray into nuclear engineering and bombarding myself with fast neutrons to give myself super powers.
“Proescher stated that doses up to 1,000 µCi were tolerated well; he estimated that the lethal dose to a human was 60,000 µCi.”
Aight, so now we know not to go over 59,999 µCi of radium, got it. ☢️👍
“Explosives” by Rudolf Meyer, Josef Köhler and Axel Homburg
This is actually a really good reference book if you’re wanting to learn more about different energetic materials, their properties and uses. For instance, this book taught me what the word “brisance” means which just refers to an explosive’s ability to shatter materials rather than just push them apart. So yeah, anyways I also don’t really like Googling this shit all the time ngl…so books are best, especially FREE books!!!
Posting this for anyone interested in chemistry, engineering or pyrotechnics.
(This is NOT a tutorial book, this is a science book, btw.)
Source ☢️: archive.org/details/Explosiv…
