tamaragaber Yeah, and you, and I, and everything in this universe, does too. It’s mostly in the long wave infrared spectrum for us due to blackbody radiation, and other parts of the spectrum for objects at different temperatures. In addition, almost everything is slightly radioactive due to naturally occurring radioisotopes such as potassium-40 and carbon-14.
It reminds me of a case where it was discovered that a ordinary stapler was radioactive. It turns out that the company had filled the inside with sand to add weight to it and it was actually monazite containing sand, which has ThO2.
I used to live in Aberdeen as a student. Because of all the granite buildings (it's known as the Granite city) the background gamma radiation is somewhere around 40% higher than the rest of the country.
Ironic, everyone is so scared of radioactivity, they don't even realize they encounter radioactive objects in their daily lives. You've just got to stop worrying and love the bomb, is what I say. Oh and, what's that ominous music you used? I recognize it... S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
I would love to hear what kinds of saftey precautions you take with storing and handling these samples? Is it not very necessary (I notice the bare hands). Is there any risk to repeated handling and or storing them near your for long periods?
You should wash your hands with soap after handling them. Uranium is about as chemically toxic as lead. Our bodies evolved with uranium in the environment and we're able to excrete it, but large amounts are still a concern. For the most part, besides avoiding contamination with dust, the two precautions are to keep it some distance away from where people spend considerable time (the radiation rate decays with the square of the distance), and to keep it in a well ventilated area (outside, basically) to avoid a radon build up indoors (radon is more of a risk because it gets inside the lungs). His collection is radioactive enough that he can probably detect it from several meters away. A "safe" distance is about when the dose rate falls below 1 µSv/hr. You can shorten the distance with shielding (basically, any mass), but it's not necessary when distance will do.
Another thing to keep in mind is that alot of radiation is stopped by our skin. So being near radioactive materials like this for a few minutes won't kill you. What's extremely dangerous is when radioactive materials are dispersed in air or water. If we were to breath or otherwise ingest radioactive materials we wouldn't have our skin to protect us
Mark Rose Beta radiation isn't nearly as damaging relative to Gamma or Alpha as far as I understand.due to the radically lower mass of electrons. I think my point still stands that consumed radioactive materials are radically more dangerous than ones sitting on a table or something
A single flight from New York to Los Angeles exposes you to about 40µSv, so you could probably play with these samples every day without being in any danger.
+MCPE Manu_ Beh....Non so.Se vai a cercare "Bionerd" il tuo "standard" si alzerá.È incredibile quante radiazioni sopra la norma possiamo ricevere senza conseguenze.E poi quest i non sono materiali con radioattivitá seria.Se guardi il canale di Bionerd,ha trovato a Chernobyl un pezzetto di carburante del reattore esploso per terra,e se lo tiene in camera da letto,anche se supera il limite dei misuratori.
Personally, I think anything below 100 microsieverts/hour is not dangerous if you only hold it for a few minutes or hours And I'd quite happily wear that lavastone pendant, it's just like wearing a piece of granite
Richard Frank You'd have to absorb 126 days worth of radiation from it to die, but your body will heal itself before that. (from the 1.66 microseivents one)
Last year at our school we had to test some radioactive material, shit got scary when the gauger counter still counted around 1600 uSv/hour even when there was 6cm of leadplate between it and the source.(source itself counted over 3400 uSv/hour)
It's a school in holland called bernardinus, tough it was a yearly event of an university, since it is prohibited for a school to have such materials laying around.
I live in Saxony, Ore Mountains from where you got the Pitchblende and in my town there are a lot of mines but they are all closed in cause of radioactive ores/materials.
Really interesting video! Definitely subscribing to your channel… Two questions: Can the SOEKS detector display counts per minute (CPM)? And also, what is the font you used for displaying the mineral’s names and formulas? It’s beautiful!
Good work, nice presentation but.. there is a problem. Your video is misleading. Both instruments show numbers, and numbers only. You could make anyone of them show Fukushima inside the reactor while it does not exist at more than low sample level of say Cs-137. The answer is Calibration of whatever we use as nuclear decay energy detector or to be more accurate nuclear activity detector. The only limitation with how big is the error is sensitivity of the detector. I love your videos, thank you for your work. It is my preoccupation on a daily basis. Wesley
I am looking to buy a reliable Geiger counter because I live on top of a mass of hot granite and have several defunct thorium and uranium mines in the neighbourhood. I have been told that even our well water contains uranium and radon. The strange thing is that people around here also live to great old age.
johannes the stalking biscuit only if it has a mica window, thin enough to allow alpha particles in. I believe the SOEKS in this video does not have one.
***** Yes, geiger counters are usually quite far from the full story unless you are measuring a Cesium-137 sample. I would get a higher reading if the samples were 'unpacked' and measured including alpha radiation. But with an energy-compensated scintillator I think most samples would score a lower reading.
Great video, but is it really safe touching these with your bare hands?… I mean, these things could contaminate your hand and give you long time exposure…that's not good for the system
+陈厚邻 You won't believe how much I wash my hands when handling radioactive samples :) It is a good idea to wear gloves. I actually don't handle the large, strong pitchblende samples with my hands. I use a 'trash grabber'. This lowers my recieved dose, and uranium is also a heavy metal that could give heavy metal poisioning... Thanks for watching!
Back in the days, where they made glass from Uran. Aside from having radioactive material embedded, those glasses are really nice to look at under UV light.
Konban Wa, just saw it and want to inform you that Fukushima Daiichi is now open for Tourgroups: www.insidejapantours.com/japan-news/3723/new-magazine-focuses-on-dark-tourism-sites-in-japan/
Great video ! Other samples to add to your collection are the sensor from an old smoke alarm, welding rod with 2% thorium and maybe old glow in the dark clocks or instruments from pre WW II or The Great War to end all wars... Have you been to the Trinity Site ? And 2015 was the 70th year with a big turn out in the Spring Open House. Used to play at the old Argonne site where CP-2 and CP-3 are buried. CP-3 was the First Working Heavy Water Reactor ! The German design was to small and needed to be three times larger to work. And think that a young woman from Poland started all the work on radiation and was the first woman professor and taught at a French University. Thank you, tjl
Another great video! Thanks for sharing!!! I'm gonna buy one of these radiation measurement things and check my dinnerware in case any stuff at my home is radioactive too. Those pendants and dinnerware sets should be clearly labeled as radioactive! It's kinda scary!!!
I think you need to add some context to the levels of radiation these things are giving out. The tool you're using seems to consider anything above 0.9 as dangerous, yet you're handling it without a care, so what is dangerous?
FileTrekker If I'm right, that counter is made for measuring background radiations, so it's for long-term exposure. normally the normal amount we get usually for a year is 4mSv, this counter measure the number of uSv per Hour (i use ''u'' for micro), if we take his background exposure, its 0.13uSv/h, in one year you get 1.14 mSv a year, which is a low amount But at 0.9uSv/h, you get 7.88mSv, which is almost twice (4mSv) the normal dose one of the sample was 38uSv/h, in one year you get an impressive 332.88mSv, which is almost 7 time higher the max allowed exposed for one year (50mSv) of an Nuclear plant employee For the highest thing he tested, 4x320=1.28mSv/h, the one year dose is 11.21Sv, the deadly dose is 2Sv to 4Sv, il make you see how fast it goes up second: 0.35 uSv minute: 21.33 uSv Hour: 1.28 mSv Day: 30.72 mSv Week: 215.04 mSv Month: 921.6 mSv Year: 11.21 Sv there the image i used, which is reliable upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Radiation_Dose_Chart_by_Xkcd.png So the fact he touch them for a short time is not dangerous at all, since the counter is for Long term measurements. Hope that helped
That might explain why I felt nauseous for no reason (this only occurred a few times within a decade) Touching things that we would not even think to be radioactive
@Brainic75, I'm glad that you now have the Radiacode device, but that said, lots of people went out and purchased the Gamma Scout because they saw it on your channel. The gamma scout is a totally horrendous product, and even now get sales revenue for this snake oil. FYI, I just did a review on my channel about that horrible product.
Great, the dogs will be happy to know that the quality of the material is very important to the dog owners! Are those lava souvenirs from your island vacations haha? Are they popular in Europe? Japan is in such a state, I don't even want to say... It is interesting that they turned Chernobyl into a tourist trap. Have you heard about the radioactive wild Boars? They like the Truffles, yum! Please, can you test the mushrooms and maybe some soil samples? Thanks
der GAMMASCOUT hat das messfenster vorne an der stirnseite und kann deshalb die werte nicht richtig messen wenn sie das gerät mit der unterseite auf den zu messenden gegenstand legen!
You should make a video where you test and show things that are radioactive or emit radiation that we may have or use on a daily basis. Like what you did with the dog tag and the set of dishes.
why the gammascout jumps to zero at the 320µsv piece? (at 10:10) thats not normal, its not too much for that device (when its too much it shows "overflow") maybe there is something wrong with the tube voltage regulation, it needs to rise the voltage at higher counts
+Ben J Alpha radiation is stopped by only a sheet of paper and has a range of only a few centimetres in air. Beta radiation is a bit stronger, so maybe some of the samples are in a lead box.
For short periods, it is not dangerous to be around sources with that dosage rate. To give you some perspective, lets say the max dosage rate of one of these samples is four times the max of 320 uSv/hr that he detected. That ends up being about 1.3 mSv/hr. The dosage from a CT scan can be about 7 mSv. So the brief exposure of handling these sources isn't a major cause for concern. You would NOT want to carry it around in your pocket with you though. If you carried a sample so that part of your body was exposed to 1.3 mSv/hr all the time, 24/7 for a whole year, that part of your body would receive about 11 Sv over the course of the year. That's about 3000 times the amount of ionizing radiation your body experiences over the course of a year from natural sources. That's not a dosage you want to receive.
the thing is that most of the particals are beta and Alpha, as long as they are Not inhaled they wont Do shit, they only particals that are very dangerous are gammar particals, but those are normally Not in things we have in normal live.
to the end question... Interestingly Fukushima is already starting to draw tourists to the ghost towns. had I had more time I would have liked to visit myself... maybe my next trip.
Chernobyl is a tourist destination, but Chelyabinsk is still open to live and no one knows what happened in Krasnoyarsk because they turned off the Geiger counters...
+Nguagemaster Well, for a few hours once in a while you have to be very unlucky to be hurt by these pendants. But the gamma rays from these will go through clothes, skin etc. so you need a thick layer of for example lead to actually shield the radiation at a short distance. My advice is that you never wear these pendants. There are a lot of nice, non-radioactive pendants to choose from :)
***** Labs are definitely going to have it, sure, but it seems like he got it as a private buyer, which is what made me curious. I've been trying to synthesize uranyl nitrate for display over an ultraviolet LED, but struggling to isolate the uranyl.
i found this same Geiger counter on a forum from a man who goes to Chernobyl for his birthday, he used it for checking radiation in the areas he visited, so it was neat to see you using it as well knowing that the russian military who helped him into the zone also used it for visitors
That's interesting but 50usv/h is not THAT much. A normal radiography is almos 1 mSV and 1 mSV= 1000 usv. Furthemore deadly effects reach the body with 3 or 4 SV where 1 SV = 1000 mSV = 1.000.000 usv. Of course that's still terrible for a necklace because of the continuous exposition
Hm. Crappy devices. The GQ GMC 300+ costs lot less and is not out maxable. I have a uraninite sample that gives over 87k cpm - although because I recently modded the GMC, I don't know the ySv/h value, but who cares? It's not Very useful anyway.
What is that ionising pyramid even called that I couldn't seem to find online anymore? Now watching this I remember that my mom had a bigger size than that depicted in the video and had it put at the corner of our bedrooms for years. Didn't really expect to know that in the past I've been living with higher than background radiation for sure.
Hello. i am not gillian walace, but do have a question... How do i calculate the radiation compared to backround radiation. For example: if the avrage backround usv/h is 0.10 and the radiation fron my sample is 37.0, how much would i be exposed to radiation, and how would i calculate it, with like, a calculator.
400 grams pitchblende radioactivity is approx. ~50 mSv/h so if i were you, i would rather place that mineral and geiger counters with 1m long pinchers cuz its definetely not safe to be that close to 400 grams pitchblende, or even worse touch it with your hands. i mean, 50 mSv/h is definetely nothing to worry about for sure, but it could already make you throw or at least give you strong headache for sure
Not sure about you but those pendants made me very mad. They claimed it uses so-called 'negative ion technology', which is pseudoscientific bullshit by the way, and claimed all these false health benefits while exposing you and your pets to high levels of ionizing radiation. Seriously, it should be illegal to advertise something dangerous as being 'good for immunity.' However, I am not a radiophobe either, but it really pisses me off when people sell this to gullible people who buy this stuff thinking it will help them even though it is just exposing them to unnecessary amounts of ionizing radiation, which is bad for your health.
One thing that always sticks my mind about nuclear fuel rods and such is that the half-life of uranium 238 (i.e. the time necessary for half the material to break down and become non hazardous) is several million years. Moreover, there is no practical way to recycle or dispose of spent fuel rods, you can only store them away. The "elephant foot" reactor slag at Chernobyl will be lethally radioactive for as long as humans walk the Earth.
I would choose the most modern one. Soeks 01m Generation 2 is better than the older Soeks Defender. But I would choose Defender over the original 01m (older). If I had to buy one today I would save up for the Soeks Prime (www.soeks-usa.com/compare/76/77/82/80?sort=product_name&setCurrencyId=3).
Brainiac75 Does the Prime have better features than the 01m Generation 2? Apparently Soeks-USA on Amazon won't ship to my country :c There are other sellers though!
MrMattsung Yes, the Prime is an upgraded 01M G2. Faster, more sensitive, twice the battery life, able to switch to other units than microsieverts etc. More info here: www.soeks-usa.com/prime/ It seems like the best buy to me. My Defender is getting quite outdated :/
I would love to ask if you could check expensive stuff like: cosmetics, perfumes, food, computers, smarphones, jewlery. it would be amazing to know which make up is radioactive, because im sure they use variety of materials and in order to get colors they go for stuff that is unsafe, brands that i know, is jefree star, Anastasia, dior, tom ford
I have collected and removed more than 600 lbs of pitchblende from my seven acre property. I live in Independence, Virginia. Pearisburg, VA is worse. I'm just glad that most of those rocks are directional.
Hi, are you from Czech Republic ? because i just realised, that all radioactive minerals were from there .. actually I am from Příbram - city that your Uranium comes from .. we still have radiation naturaly there .. write me PM for more details if you are interested about radioaction, real uranium mining city .. etc ..
You know it's bad when even your Geiger counter screams out in pain.
yea haha
I seem to be late
I feel like I got radiation poisoning from just watching this
well you did not because it takes 25,000 MR to get you sick
Kumatine me too
Steve so need some rad away only 60 caps
well, computers and smartphones also amit radiation.
tamaragaber Yeah, and you, and I, and everything in this universe, does too. It’s mostly in the long wave infrared spectrum for us due to blackbody radiation, and other parts of the spectrum for objects at different temperatures. In addition, almost everything is slightly radioactive due to naturally occurring radioisotopes such as potassium-40 and carbon-14.
WOAH, That pseudoscience on those pedants scare me...
Here, hang this radiation source right over your thyroid gland!
this fuckin amulets give you ~16 mSv/a ... thats like working in a nuclear plant ^^
Same here. You think we would stop after Hiroshima but nah
imagine those poor pets wearing the radioactive pendants!
It reminds me of a case where it was discovered that a ordinary stapler was radioactive. It turns out that the company had filled the inside with sand to add weight to it and it was actually monazite containing sand, which has ThO2.
I hope you used some Rad-X before filming!
☭_DRINK_CCCP_420_☭ literally nobody cares
You should have used bananas for comparison.
veritasium?
+M Isa Yeah.
Po Lu Nah, Veritasium is one of those scientific YT channels.
I had that exact same idea
Bananas are very Dangerous there Radiation is very Dangerous if a Man it's One He Becomes Gay and can't Make Baby's.
am I the only one that LOVES the sound of the geiger counter?
Damon Jackson ℵϙ ⅈ ĹⅈϏ℮ ⅈȶ ȶϙϙ
Nope. Geiger counter ASMR for life
Damon Jackson Definitely Not For Me I Like The Geiger Counter Sound
BEP BEP BEP BEP BEP BEP BEP BEP BEP BEP BEP BEP BEP BEP BEP BEP BEP BEP
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I felt like I got cancer just by watching this.
+Forssa1 Our bodies produce around 5000 cancer cells in 1 minute, sleep on that.
+Dāvis Zaķis -- We are world cancer so it's like a pot and a kettle thing at this point.
Well, i am from saxony. why did you said it because it is in germany?
Forssa1 Only if you Smoke ! tjl
Your a very rare sort of Guy.
A credit to the intelligent and interesting aspects of human kind.
Thank you for your presentation, most enjoyable.
+Bill Stamford
Thank you for commenting! And you are a polite commenter - something rare here on the internet ;)
I used to live in Aberdeen as a student. Because of all the granite buildings (it's known as the Granite city) the background gamma radiation is somewhere around 40% higher than the rest of the country.
"These are considered safe for food. Just avoid acidic foods and drinks"
Or just use a normal bowl where there is no "just avoid" attached on to it.
Where do you store these "Radioactive Stuff" ?
In the refrigerator.
At his mother-in-laws house!
His mothers barn
in lead
In his pocket
You’re delusional, it was obviously 3.6 Roentgens, get him out!
I’ll leave now
not good, not terrible
Ironic, everyone is so scared of radioactivity, they don't even realize they encounter radioactive objects in their daily lives.
You've just got to stop worrying and love the bomb, is what I say.
Oh and, what's that ominous music you used? I recognize it... S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Found the Children of Atom follower 🤣
HOLY CRAP! I'm from Czech Republic.. and right now I'm like super scared to touch any rock in the nature here. 😄
Ja taky
Can’t find radioactive rocks in Ohio, Usa
I would love to hear what kinds of saftey precautions you take with storing and handling these samples? Is it not very necessary (I notice the bare hands). Is there any risk to repeated handling and or storing them near your for long periods?
You should wash your hands with soap after handling them. Uranium is about as chemically toxic as lead. Our bodies evolved with uranium in the environment and we're able to excrete it, but large amounts are still a concern. For the most part, besides avoiding contamination with dust, the two precautions are to keep it some distance away from where people spend considerable time (the radiation rate decays with the square of the distance), and to keep it in a well ventilated area (outside, basically) to avoid a radon build up indoors (radon is more of a risk because it gets inside the lungs). His collection is radioactive enough that he can probably detect it from several meters away. A "safe" distance is about when the dose rate falls below 1 µSv/hr. You can shorten the distance with shielding (basically, any mass), but it's not necessary when distance will do.
Another thing to keep in mind is that alot of radiation is stopped by our skin. So being near radioactive materials like this for a few minutes won't kill you. What's extremely dangerous is when radioactive materials are dispersed in air or water. If we were to breath or otherwise ingest radioactive materials we wouldn't have our skin to protect us
Liam8488 The skin only protects against alpha radiation. It does nothing to protect against beta or gamma radiation.
Mark Rose
Beta radiation isn't nearly as damaging relative to Gamma or Alpha as far as I understand.due to the radically lower mass of electrons. I think my point still stands that consumed radioactive materials are radically more dangerous than ones sitting on a table or something
A single flight from New York to Los Angeles exposes you to about 40µSv, so you could probably play with these samples every day without being in any danger.
Naaah...My socks emit 500 000 millisieverts/hout
+VLOG e altra roba.... Wow. Can be used as a nuclear bomb.
Throw it to china
+VLOG e altra roba.... heh. you think YOURS are bad? i tested mine and they were 14,000,000,000,000 Microsieverts/hour!
+MCPE Manu_ Beh....Non so.Se vai a cercare "Bionerd" il tuo "standard" si alzerá.È incredibile quante radiazioni sopra la norma possiamo ricevere senza conseguenze.E poi quest i non sono materiali con radioattivitá seria.Se guardi il canale di Bionerd,ha trovato a Chernobyl un pezzetto di carburante del reattore esploso per terra,e se lo tiene in camera da letto,anche se supera il limite dei misuratori.
+VLOG e altra roba.... Bionerd la conosco eccome...è da un po che non si vede aveva fatto anche la scintigrafia...non gli sarà andate molto bene
Who the hell sells radioactive necklaces!? D:
...and they don't even inform the buyers about it. They're sold as beneficial for your health. Even for your pet... Welcome to 2016 :)
Brainiac75 thanks
Brainiac75 throwback to the 1800's
Personally, I think anything below 100 microsieverts/hour is not dangerous if you only hold it for a few minutes or hours
And I'd quite happily wear that lavastone pendant, it's just like wearing a piece of granite
Richard Frank You'd have to absorb 126 days worth of radiation from it to die, but your body will heal itself before that. (from the 1.66 microseivents one)
I was waiting for: "Warning! Hazardous radiation levels detected."
+pvc988 The warnings on the meter including "DANGEROUS BACKGROUND RADIATION" was clear enough to me.
Was that a Half Life reference ?
I was waiting for it to say "Get the fuck out!"
Subnautica?
+Friday Harlowe :)
I find it funny that some people make a big deal over Brazil nuts when random stuff is more radioactive
I don't know it it is really smart to make those radioactive lava samples pendant-shaped. Someone stupid enough might actually wear them.
Oscar Scheepstra people wear them to cure cancer... oh the irony...
kagi95
Well, so this is really cool! :D
Oscar Scheepstra alpha and beta particles are not harmful unless they are ingested or inhaled. these decays are almost always alpha or beta decay
+Physics Only the device measures hard beta and gamma... no alpha is detected
how to commit a crime with radioactive shit.
1. Give your victim the lava rock pendent as a present.
2. AND BOOM CHECK IT OUT PRETTY AMAZING HEH?
use Rad-x dude :)
that shit is real Nasa is working on it, but I think it works like rad-x and rad away
I need some stampaks because of this comment..
Scrolled down to find this!!
Czech Republic for the win!
I'm just kidding.
Or not.
+Shadowhacker Yeah i live in most radioactive county propably :-D
+Shadowhacker Don't be mean to my neighbour country D:
jk dont take srsly
+Slahous já nevěděl že žiju v Černobylu 0.o
:-DD
+MichalH What is your neghbour country?
Word has it that Keemstar emits 174991748293.29kGy/h of radiation.
WoW i didn't knew that MeeMStar can cause cancer o.o
Painis Cupcake It's true!
***** Sometimes I touch myself.
So if the pendant is dangerously radioactive, I can't see how keeping it right on your chest would be in any means safe..
"...it's tiny, but still has a larger, more sensitive geiger tube..."
.... That's what she said ...
Lool
Before you mentioned it, I thought; "How the hell can people sell radioactive pendants?". Prefect example of greed, no matter what the cost to others!
How radioactive is that rock?
It says 320uSv/h but that's as high as the meter goes...
Ah! 320. Not great, not terrible.
its actually 720 microsieverts
i found in a later video
A normal day in Braniac's life xD
How did you keep yourself safe from the Radiation? Or is it safe for linited periods of exposure?
I have a question:
Since the counter detected dangerous amounts of radioactivity in some samples isnt it dangerous for your health too?
My question to you sir, why the hell you keep radioactive material in your home?
Last year at our school we had to test some radioactive material, shit got scary when the gauger counter still counted around 1600 uSv/hour even when there was 6cm of leadplate between it and the source.(source itself counted over 3400 uSv/hour)
blackvalley007 Wow, what kind of school/university is that? Sources with that activity are to my knowledge not common among pupils :)
It's a school in holland called bernardinus, tough it was a yearly event of an university, since it is prohibited for a school to have such materials laying around.
blackvalley007 Ah OK, that makes sense to me. I would also be careful when handling sources with millisieverts/h :)
Holy shit, your school got a mini nuclear plant in a box? A LEAD box?
I live in Saxony, Ore Mountains from where you got the Pitchblende and in my town there are a lot of mines but they are all closed in cause of radioactive ores/materials.
your videos are always a treat
Thank god this came up in suggested videos, I couldn't help but keep watching race crashes.
Could you perhaps put these figures into context in terms of how dangerous some of these items could potentially be?
4:10 I love how the geiger counter is already beeping in fear
A very engaging and beautifully narrated video. Thank you for sharing this stuff with us!
Really interesting video! Definitely subscribing to your channel… Two questions: Can the SOEKS detector display counts per minute (CPM)? And also, what is the font you used for displaying the mineral’s names and formulas? It’s beautiful!
Thank you :)
No, the Soeks cannot display CPM. The Gamma-Scout can (CPS or accumulated counts in a given period).
The font is called Lao UI.
What is the most radioactive thing in the body naturally?
+TheGamerOfSamness (Evarderp)
Potassium-40 has some hard gamma radiation. More info: hps.org/publicinformation/ate/faqs/faqradbods.html
Bananas have Potassium-40
A penis?(Maybe?)
You are funny. But no
what is the deadliest thing naturally in the body
Who is watching this in 2016?
Good work, nice presentation but.. there is a problem.
Your video is misleading. Both instruments show numbers, and numbers only. You could make anyone of them show Fukushima inside the reactor while it does not exist at more than low sample level of say Cs-137. The answer is Calibration of whatever we use as nuclear decay energy detector or to be more accurate nuclear activity detector.
The only limitation with how big is the error is sensitivity of the detector.
I love your videos, thank you for your work. It is my preoccupation on a daily basis.
Wesley
Where do you buy your mineral samples? Thanks for the video!
Would it surprise you, if it was the dark net?
I am looking to buy a reliable Geiger counter because I live on top of a mass of hot granite and have several defunct thorium and uranium mines in the neighbourhood. I have been told that even our well water contains uranium and radon. The strange thing is that people around here also live to great old age.
I live in the Czech Republic :)
This video made me wondering if the 33x45x5cm "Viscount White" granite slab underneath my record player is radioactive, and if, how much.
How did you get that radioactive material 🇫🇮🇫🇮🍪
I bought it. Search eBay or dedicated mineral webshops :)
+Brainiac75 Okay :) Thank you for anwsering to my comment many big you tubers dont even read my comments so thank you :)
Could you provide a link?
Yeah my cooking has like 900sieverts per second
What would happen if you put your radiation detector thing in a microwave and turned it on?
I'm also aware that radioactivity and microwaves aren't necessarily the same thing lol.
Borka223 im fairly certain it detects alpha too, but yea
johannes the stalking biscuit only if it has a mica window, thin enough to allow alpha particles in. I believe the SOEKS in this video does not have one.
Microwave radiation is non-ionizing so a geiger counter doesn't detect it. But it would probably fry/melt the electronics so don't do it :)
***** Yes, geiger counters are usually quite far from the full story unless you are measuring a Cesium-137 sample. I would get a higher reading if the samples were 'unpacked' and measured including alpha radiation. But with an energy-compensated scintillator I think most samples would score a lower reading.
Great video, but is it really safe touching these with your bare hands?… I mean, these things could contaminate your hand and give you long time exposure…that's not good for the system
+陈厚邻
You won't believe how much I wash my hands when handling radioactive samples :)
It is a good idea to wear gloves. I actually don't handle the large, strong pitchblende samples with my hands. I use a 'trash grabber'. This lowers my recieved dose, and uranium is also a heavy metal that could give heavy metal poisioning...
Thanks for watching!
THIS VIDEO SCARED THE LIVING HELL OUT OF ME
Lore it's the background music
People tend to fear what they do now know about.
Back in the days, where they made glass from Uran. Aside from having radioactive material embedded, those glasses are really nice to look at under UV light.
It's great to see you're making super-interesting videos again!
Konban Wa, just saw it and want to inform you that Fukushima Daiichi is now open for Tourgroups: www.insidejapantours.com/japan-news/3723/new-magazine-focuses-on-dark-tourism-sites-in-japan/
but that place is less radioactive then the necklaces in the videos.
How do you store your radioactive samples?
+Marius Ammann behind Iron bars well that is what i would do
+Gandalf Bruh Lead bars at least
iron? defuq i talk lead yes iam sorry m888
Bars? You know it's not a prisoner right? It can go through the gap in the bars lmao. Surely a lead box would be better?
The fridge.
Great video ! Other samples to add to your collection are the sensor from an old smoke alarm, welding rod with 2% thorium and maybe old glow in the dark clocks or instruments from pre WW II or The Great War to end all wars... Have you been to the Trinity Site ? And 2015 was the 70th year with a big turn out in the Spring Open House. Used to play at the old Argonne site where CP-2 and CP-3 are buried. CP-3 was the First Working Heavy Water Reactor ! The German design was to small and needed to be three times larger to work. And think that a young woman from Poland started all the work on radiation and was the first woman professor and taught at a French University. Thank you, tjl
This man wants to die
Another great video! Thanks for sharing!!! I'm gonna buy one of these radiation measurement things and check my dinnerware in case any stuff at my home is radioactive too. Those pendants and dinnerware sets should be clearly labeled as radioactive! It's kinda scary!!!
Bionerd just signed your hat! Dude, that's so cool! I watched her videos about Chernobyl! She is a brave and great person!
I think you need to add some context to the levels of radiation these things are giving out. The tool you're using seems to consider anything above 0.9 as dangerous, yet you're handling it without a care, so what is dangerous?
FileTrekker If I'm right, that counter is made for measuring background radiations, so it's for long-term exposure. normally the normal amount we get usually for a year is 4mSv, this counter measure the number of uSv per Hour (i use ''u'' for micro),
if we take his background exposure, its 0.13uSv/h, in one year you get 1.14 mSv a year, which is a low amount
But at 0.9uSv/h, you get 7.88mSv, which is almost twice (4mSv) the normal dose
one of the sample was 38uSv/h, in one year you get an impressive 332.88mSv, which is almost 7 time higher the max allowed exposed for one year (50mSv) of an Nuclear plant employee
For the highest thing he tested, 4x320=1.28mSv/h, the one year dose is 11.21Sv, the deadly dose is 2Sv to 4Sv, il make you see how fast it goes up
second: 0.35 uSv
minute: 21.33 uSv
Hour: 1.28 mSv
Day: 30.72 mSv
Week: 215.04 mSv
Month: 921.6 mSv
Year: 11.21 Sv
there the image i used, which is reliable upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Radiation_Dose_Chart_by_Xkcd.png
So the fact he touch them for a short time is not dangerous at all, since the counter is for Long term measurements. Hope that helped
As always a really interesting video. I have never seen one that I didn't like. Thank you for making, them very informative.
Thanks for watching :)
That might explain why I felt nauseous for no reason (this only occurred a few times within a decade)
Touching things that we would not even think to be radioactive
Won't be the cause. Exposure to low/ moderate amounts of radiation produces no acute symptoms
Hey I'm new to these types of videos and I'm curious how much radiation would be a lethal dose, or how much would actually affect you?
@Brainic75, I'm glad that you now have the Radiacode device, but that said, lots of people went out and purchased the Gamma Scout because they saw it on your channel. The gamma scout is a totally horrendous product, and even now get sales revenue for this snake oil. FYI, I just did a review on my channel about that horrible product.
Great, the dogs will be happy to know that the quality of the material is very important to the dog owners! Are those lava souvenirs from your island vacations haha? Are they popular in Europe? Japan is in such a state, I don't even want to say... It is interesting that they turned Chernobyl into a tourist trap. Have you heard about the radioactive wild Boars? They like the Truffles, yum! Please, can you test the mushrooms and maybe some soil samples? Thanks
Any recommendations for geiger counters? I would like one
der GAMMASCOUT hat das messfenster vorne an der stirnseite und kann deshalb die werte nicht richtig messen wenn sie das gerät mit der unterseite auf den zu messenden gegenstand legen!
You should make a video where you test and show things that are radioactive or emit radiation that we may have or use on a daily basis. Like what you did with the dog tag and the set of dishes.
why the gammascout jumps to zero at the 320µsv piece? (at 10:10) thats not normal, its not too much for that device (when its too much it shows "overflow")
maybe there is something wrong with the tube voltage regulation, it needs to rise the voltage at higher counts
5.00 Is the radiation used in Xray's 37? Run. xD
HOLY FUCK IS ME IM FROM CZECH REPUBLIC.
So as most of these came under "Dangerous Radiation" levels, where do you store them? Away from your house?
+Ben J
Alpha radiation is stopped by only a sheet of paper and has a range of only a few centimetres in air. Beta radiation is a bit stronger, so maybe some of the samples are in a lead box.
Too much radiation. We'll have to go around.
Why is that one made into a necklace!!?? Here buddy I got you a necklace keep this by your heart, always. :P
I've never worked with these nor have I had an interest but, isn't it dangerous for you to be around some of them?
For short periods, it is not dangerous to be around sources with that dosage rate. To give you some perspective, lets say the max dosage rate of one of these samples is four times the max of 320 uSv/hr that he detected. That ends up being about 1.3 mSv/hr. The dosage from a CT scan can be about 7 mSv. So the brief exposure of handling these sources isn't a major cause for concern. You would NOT want to carry it around in your pocket with you though.
If you carried a sample so that part of your body was exposed to 1.3 mSv/hr all the time, 24/7 for a whole year, that part of your body would receive about 11 Sv over the course of the year. That's about 3000 times the amount of ionizing radiation your body experiences over the course of a year from natural sources. That's not a dosage you want to receive.
the thing is that most of the particals are beta and Alpha, as long as they are Not inhaled they wont Do shit, they only particals that are very dangerous are gammar particals, but those are normally Not in things we have in normal live.
to the end question... Interestingly Fukushima is already starting to draw tourists to the ghost towns. had I had more time I would have liked to visit myself... maybe my next trip.
Love the music you use for this, kind of has a dark feel to it. :)
Chernobyl is a tourist destination, but Chelyabinsk is still open to live and no one knows what happened in Krasnoyarsk because they turned off the Geiger counters...
heh... ...what a strange feeling when i noticed many of this stuff is from my country...
Is it dangerous to wear a radioactive pendant like that if its not exposed to your skin?
+Nguagemaster
Well, for a few hours once in a while you have to be very unlucky to be hurt by these pendants.
But the gamma rays from these will go through clothes, skin etc. so you need a thick layer of for example lead to actually shield the radiation at a short distance.
My advice is that you never wear these pendants. There are a lot of nice, non-radioactive pendants to choose from :)
+brainiac75 but...will they give me superpowers?
The uranyl acetate struck me. I was not aware soluble uranium compounds were available for purchase.
***** Labs are definitely going to have it, sure, but it seems like he got it as a private buyer, which is what made me curious. I've been trying to synthesize uranyl nitrate for display over an ultraviolet LED, but struggling to isolate the uranyl.
i found this same Geiger counter on a forum from a man who goes to Chernobyl for his birthday, he used it for checking radiation in the areas he visited, so it was neat to see you using it as well knowing that the russian military who helped him into the zone also used it for visitors
+Brandon Fireking actually i believe its Ukrainian military, my bad
Shouldnt you put something against... idk. Dangerous radiation?! Remember what happened to Marie Curie :v
I bought another motor oil and it didn't spike. Should I add more Fe3O4 or should I try geting magnatec oil (it is hard to get in my area)
That's interesting but 50usv/h is not THAT much. A normal radiography is almos 1 mSV and 1 mSV= 1000 usv.
Furthemore deadly effects reach the body with 3 or 4 SV where 1 SV = 1000 mSV = 1.000.000 usv.
Of course that's still terrible for a necklace because of the continuous exposition
How can they legally sell those pendents.
House full of the Elements free cancer for everyone ringing the The doorbell to enjoy a cup of tea with iodine 😊 Japanese sushi yes please😀
Hm. Crappy devices. The GQ GMC 300+ costs lot less and is not out maxable. I have a uraninite sample that gives over 87k cpm - although because I recently modded the GMC, I don't know the ySv/h value, but who cares? It's not Very useful anyway.
What is that ionising pyramid even called that I couldn't seem to find online anymore? Now watching this I remember that my mom had a bigger size than that depicted in the video and had it put at the corner of our bedrooms for years. Didn't really expect to know that in the past I've been living with higher than background radiation for sure.
inverse square law should lower the exposure a lot if you sleep on the other side
Hello. i am not gillian walace, but do have a question... How do i calculate the radiation compared to backround radiation.
For example: if the avrage backround usv/h is 0.10 and the radiation fron my sample is 37.0, how much would i be exposed to radiation, and how would i calculate it, with like, a calculator.
400 grams pitchblende radioactivity is approx. ~50 mSv/h so if i were you, i would rather place that mineral and geiger counters with 1m long pinchers cuz its definetely not safe to be that close to 400 grams pitchblende, or even worse touch it with your hands. i mean, 50 mSv/h is definetely nothing to worry about for sure, but it could already make you throw or at least give you strong headache for sure
Not sure about you but those pendants made me very mad. They claimed it uses so-called 'negative ion technology', which is pseudoscientific bullshit by the way, and claimed all these false health benefits while exposing you and your pets to high levels of ionizing radiation. Seriously, it should be illegal to advertise something dangerous as being 'good for immunity.' However, I am not a radiophobe either, but it really pisses me off when people sell this to gullible people who buy this stuff thinking it will help them even though it is just exposing them to unnecessary amounts of ionizing radiation, which is bad for your health.
One thing that always sticks my mind about nuclear fuel rods and such is that the half-life of uranium 238 (i.e. the time necessary for half the material to break down and become non hazardous) is several million years. Moreover, there is no practical way to recycle or dispose of spent fuel rods, you can only store them away. The "elephant foot" reactor slag at Chernobyl will be lethally radioactive for as long as humans walk the Earth.
Would you recommend the Soeks 01m over the defender?
I am looking for a portable geiger counter.
I would choose the most modern one. Soeks 01m Generation 2 is better than the older Soeks Defender. But I would choose Defender over the original 01m (older).
If I had to buy one today I would save up for the Soeks Prime (www.soeks-usa.com/compare/76/77/82/80?sort=product_name&setCurrencyId=3).
Brainiac75 Does the Prime have better features than the 01m Generation 2? Apparently Soeks-USA on Amazon won't ship to my country :c There are other sellers though!
MrMattsung Yes, the Prime is an upgraded 01M G2. Faster, more sensitive, twice the battery life, able to switch to other units than microsieverts etc. More info here: www.soeks-usa.com/prime/
It seems like the best buy to me. My Defender is getting quite outdated :/
Looks really good! Display looks great. What do you think about the Quantum?
The Quantum is really nice with better screen and dual geiger tubes. But at 40% higher price I'm not sure it's the best buy unless money is no object.
I would love to ask if you could check expensive stuff like: cosmetics, perfumes, food, computers, smarphones, jewlery. it would be amazing to know which make up is radioactive, because im sure they use variety of materials and in order to get colors they go for stuff that is unsafe, brands that i know, is jefree star, Anastasia, dior, tom ford
I have collected and removed more than 600 lbs of pitchblende from my seven acre property. I live in Independence, Virginia. Pearisburg, VA is worse. I'm just glad that most of those rocks are directional.
Very cool video! Those samples sure beat anything I have!
Im from czech republic thanks for use our radioactive ore (sorry for my english i know its bad)
Hi, are you from Czech Republic ? because i just realised, that all radioactive minerals were from there .. actually I am from Příbram - city that your Uranium comes from .. we still have radiation naturaly there .. write me PM for more details if you are interested about radioaction, real uranium mining city .. etc ..