How To Make A Radioactive Containment Container
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I hold a lead pig with a highly radioactive source here. Welcome to Wheeler scientific in today's video, I am going over how and why I made this.
Firstly what is a lead pig? A lead pig is a device used to store and transport radioactive items safely. I made this lead pig a while back; the original intent was to create a neutron source using radium and beryllium. I scraped that idea to make a radium point source for nuclear demonstrations. I have so far used this source in a few of my videos, such as inverse square law and bending radiation. The fact that the source only can output in one direction makes it safer and easier to use for such demos.
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@vodka5410 6 ай бұрын
Great. Now i know where to put my artifacts. Lol
@fission_boy Жыл бұрын
Good video! If in the future you have to make more lead containers I recommend doing it in pieces in a modular way. After making a containment vessel and a shield for a gamma spectrometer I realized that it is the most practical way.
@tracybowling1156 Жыл бұрын
Another excellently done video. You are such a well-spoken young man. I always learn something from you and I really appreciate that. ☺️
@EvilScientist Жыл бұрын
those lead fumes 😳
@vicentegomez1416 Ай бұрын
Nice video and idea, thanks. (Maybe you should mention in the video the danger of lead fumes). As you know about these things. A question if you don't mind. I'm IT, I'm not really versed in physics. Recently I got a budget geiger counter end thought of getting some weak radioactive sources to toy with it. These would be: A small glass with uranium and one of those negative ion pendant (thorium salts I think). Can you give some advice, or tell where should I look for it, regardin the storage and eventual disposal.of such samples? I've seen many videos of people who own uranium glass ware and have them in the living room, but I want to be sure before getting anything like that.
@pourindiesel Жыл бұрын
Fascinating, what cpm is radium giving off in and out of the pig?
@talavs-jekabsriekstins578 4 ай бұрын
Hey, just a quick question... does radon gas still escapes from this lead pig? Or it stays within the vial you are holding the dials in?
@joehumpston7937 Жыл бұрын
I’ve had an Idea of getting some Uranium glass for a Radiation talk, but I had no idea if I should, because I had no clue how to make a lead-lined container. Thanks.
@LenKusov Ай бұрын
I wouldn't worry much about it, uranium glass isn't particularly active. Heck, my grandma's been cooking with a Kellogg measuring cup since she moved to America in the early 60's, and that one's pretty dang green, along with a full set of Fiestaware. No noticeable effects and she's doing fine at 70 years old, except for the usual old-age stuff.
@joehumpston7937 Ай бұрын
@@LenKusov okay. I bet I’d need one of these if was to do it with the Americium 241 from a smoke detector.
@LenKusov Ай бұрын
@@joehumpston7937 Probably not that one either, unless you either collect a LOT of them or you carry it in your pocket. The gamma output of a consumer-grade smoke detector's negligible, and the alpha gets stopped by almost any material including a few inches of air or the top layer of your skin. It's only really a concern if you break the disc source open to get the americium OUT of the smoke detector disc, in which case you gotta worry about it getting INSIDE you, just don't crush up a pile of smoke detectors and snort em and you'll be fine. There's a reason they sell em in stores. Also don't put em in aluminum foil, that makes neutrons and neutrons make random unpredictable stuff.
@joehumpston7937 Ай бұрын
@@LenKusov well, I would need to safely transport it somehow.
@Psychx_ Жыл бұрын
The lead fumes look delicious. You might want to turn down your hotplate though.
@RynaxAlien 2 ай бұрын
why to use foil?
@chemicode 21 күн бұрын
Wouldn't bismuth also work
@Muonium1 Жыл бұрын
Well, I bought those neon gas flasks we were talking about in your last video in hopes of sending you one in return for a barometer light ampoule.....and they were all totally empty of any noble gas whatsoever. 😑 There is another seller on there selling a pair of neon flasks for like $150 from Lebanon, which they assure are full, but I think I'll pass on buying it for now.
@phonotical Жыл бұрын
Wait, you can bend radiation? How far, strength for strength I've often wondered if maybe a sort of sponge lead would work just as well for equivalent thickness, while saving weight and lead Why the name pig? Because it eats anything? 😂
@RurouniHeero Жыл бұрын
It is called a pig because it is made from “pig lead.” So, why is pig lead have the word “pig” in them? The origin is identical to pig iron. The mold looks something like a sow and piglets.
@phonotical Жыл бұрын
@@RurouniHeero I've only heard of pigiron
@RurouniHeero Жыл бұрын
@@phonotical Now you've heard piglead. Its not new, but was unknown to your knowledge, that's all.
@phonotical Жыл бұрын
@@RurouniHeero what planet are you on
@RurouniHeero Жыл бұрын
@@phonotical Be humble, you just learned something. Now get a life and move along.
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