Oak Ridge Associated Universities has a groovy collection of vintage “atomic toys” and games for children which referenced and/or promoted nuclear technology. Included are board games such as “Uranium Rush” and “Nuclear War” and, below, 1952’s Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab, which came with four pieces of real uranium:
Today, it is so highly prized by collectors that a complete set can go for more than 100 times the original price. The set came with four types of uranium ore, a beta-alpha source (Pb-210), a pure beta source (Ru-106), a gamma source (Zn-65?), a spinthariscope, a cloud chamber with its own alpha source, an electroscope, a geiger counter, and a comic book (Dagwood Splits the Atom).
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Did these things cause as much cancer as those fluoroscope shoe fitting machines?
Good question..lol I had an old chemistry set with uranium in it…I didnt like the results so I took up smoking 😛
Iran got ahold of one of these kits; hence the mass pants-shitting of everyone “concerned” about Iran’s “nuclear capability.”
haha
Amen to that!!!
A gamma source??? Yikes!
“The set came with four types of uranium ore . . . ”
This explains why the Curie kids down the block all have loose teeth and are missing great patches of hair . . .
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I like how at the bottom it says” Exciting! Safe!”
Sounds like what the Nuclear industry keeps telling us!
Nuclear industry’s held back by paranoia which would have been apropos when this kit came out, but is now, like this kit, obsolete. It’s a shame. Cheap, clean energy seems like a good thing, but the pop-culture nuclear boogeyman has us sucking the teat of coal and other fossil fuels and it seems like a cruddy deal. But hey, you go, girl.
Except it’s not cheap, not to build or maintain the plants, nor to find a way to deal with the waste.
Holy crap! I have never wanted anything in my life as much as this….I’m off to ebay right now bitches.