Fair warning: if you’re going to try to mold uranium glass in a microwave kiln, you might want to not later use the oven for preparing food. Just a thought. The powdered uranium glass then goes ...

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Through the end of the nineteenth century and until the mid-twentieth century, uranium was widely used, for example, in the colouring of glass, giving it a greenish–yellow hue (from UO 2 ...

Authorization to purchase, store, use or dispose of Uranium and Thorium compounds, such as Acetates or Nitrates must be obtained from the Radiation Safety Committee or the Radiation Safety Officer.

Uranium can pose a slight external hazard mainly from low-energy gamma and beta radiation when directly handling the material (potential skin effects). Uranium is primarily an alpha particle emitter, ...

The use of radiation in medicine since the late 19 ... SKLRMP researchers have developed a decorporation agent for removing uranium from human bodies. Radioactive actinides deposited in bone ...

The term “uranium glass” generally describes glass with uranium oxide, which glows under a black light. Other terms — Vaseline glass and Depression glass, for example — came later and ...

Special Nuclear Material, which include (1) plutonium, uranium 233, uranium enriched in the isotope 233 or in the isotope 235, and (2) any material artificially enriched by any of the above, is ...

R., A Review of the Scientific Literature as It Pertains to Gulf War Illnesses. Vol. 7, Depleted Uranium. RAND Report MR-1018/7-OSD (1999) For information on average human doses, see: UNSCEAR Reports: ...

The saving grace, according to [lenslegend], is the amount of material is small and so is the radiation. However, apparently inhaling or ingesting radioactive glass dust can be a problem.