http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/11/23/uranium-for-sale/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:33:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/11/23/uranium-for-sale/comment-page-1/#comment-1086812 cody morris Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:25:54 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/11/23/uranium-for-sale/#comment-1086812 I have to get this what is it called. Oh Im looking for uranium I have to get this what is it called.
Oh Im looking for uranium

]]> http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/11/23/uranium-for-sale/comment-page-1/#comment-1016948 NikFromNYC Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:27:56 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/11/23/uranium-for-sale/#comment-1016948 This is still actually true. Labs all over the USA use radioactive materials that don't even usually involve any paperwork. Tritium (HIGHLY CARCINOGENIC radioactive isotope of water) for instance, is used by the gallon (well, the pint maybe) in any DNA lab. Metal detectors contain highly radioactive bits of metal. Permanent-glow watch dials, which you can order thousands of from any wholesale parts place, or even order the paint used uses a radioactive isotope (classically, of Phosphorous). My father used to have some. He did watch repair as a hobby just before WWII, and so guess what he got to do in Alaska after the draft? Repair self-glowing aircraft dial instruments! He said all the "Chinese ladies" (with small fingers for such work), used to physically lick the tiny paintbrushes used to apply the dial plate markings, so they all died of mouth cancer in a few years. Vintage WWII army surplus equipment no longer glows though, since the P32 isotope used only lasted a few years. If I wanted some good poison for a dirty bomb, I'd raid the low-security food irradiation areas of vacuum packed food producers. I'll bet the armed forces now irradiate meat and seal it thus. My father once described watching tons of the best filet mignon being dumped into a huge boiling tank. Mmmmm, boiled steak! This is still actually true. Labs all over the USA use radioactive materials that don’t even usually involve any paperwork. Tritium (HIGHLY CARCINOGENIC radioactive isotope of water) for instance, is used by the gallon (well, the pint maybe) in any DNA lab. Metal detectors contain highly radioactive bits of metal. Permanent-glow watch dials, which you can order thousands of from any wholesale parts place, or even order the paint used uses a radioactive isotope (classically, of Phosphorous). My father used to have some. He did watch repair as a hobby just before WWII, and so guess what he got to do in Alaska after the draft? Repair self-glowing aircraft dial instruments! He said all the “Chinese ladies” (with small fingers for such work), used to physically lick the tiny paintbrushes used to apply the dial plate markings, so they all died of mouth cancer in a few years. Vintage WWII army surplus equipment no longer glows though, since the P32 isotope used only lasted a few years. If I wanted some good poison for a dirty bomb, I’d raid the low-security food irradiation areas of vacuum packed food producers. I’ll bet the armed forces now irradiate meat and seal it thus. My father once described watching tons of the best filet mignon being dumped into a huge boiling tank. Mmmmm, boiled steak!

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