Just note, they DO NOT ship internationally. And if you try to order 10,000 disk sources, you WILL be getting an angry knock on your door from the NRC.
I like to imagine radiologic security checks are done by border agents with cloud chambers. Not fancy electronic detectors, just literal cloud chambers. Just imagine there’s some customs guy at a port in LA. He’s standing outside a shipping container. In his hands he has a giant glass dome filled with fog. And he’s just awkwardly waving this giant impractical object all over the surface of a shipping container.
YES! Make it a glass sphere adorned with many brass fittings. And they track the counts/minute by manually counting and using a brass stopwatch that matches the design of the cloud chamber.
If you’re in the US, it actually is possible and legal to order small quantities of radioisotopes even today.
https://unitednuclear.com/radioactive-isotopes-c-2_5/
Just note, they DO NOT ship internationally. And if you try to order 10,000 disk sources, you WILL be getting an angry knock on your door from the NRC.
Huh and how many discs would it take to make a small generator for a house so I can tell my electric company to fuck off LMAO
For legal reasons that was a joke
So dumb, you can just order 8,000 discs and then order another 9,000 to your neighbor and they won’t even know 🙄
Talk about inflation! These atomic rings were only $0.15 in 1947! And those disks for polonium210 are $120
Kind of cool but i wouldn’t know what to do with it and i don’t need an expensive hobby lol
you can make a cloud chamber with clear plastic containers, a really cold frozen thing, high proof alcohol, and hot water (example)
these can visualize cosmic radiation, or you can always hold a smoke detector next to it to see it really pop off
so you can literally have an inexpensive hobby involving nuclear physics haha
I like to imagine radiologic security checks are done by border agents with cloud chambers. Not fancy electronic detectors, just literal cloud chambers. Just imagine there’s some customs guy at a port in LA. He’s standing outside a shipping container. In his hands he has a giant glass dome filled with fog. And he’s just awkwardly waving this giant impractical object all over the surface of a shipping container.
that’d be WAY more fun than a pancake GM or whatever the hell they use lol
it’s kinda steampunk
YES! Make it a glass sphere adorned with many brass fittings. And they track the counts/minute by manually counting and using a brass stopwatch that matches the design of the cloud chamber.
FETCH THE FANCY STOPWATCH COUNTING-BOY
Yes! Each customs agent needs at least one, preferable several, scrappy apprentices.