It sure does.

Thanks. There were only a couple pieces there made by Fiestaware.

​@@RadioactiveDrew is it the ones furthest from you

This color was one of the most popular. For a lot of companies this color made up 30% of the items they sold. So this might be the reason why there is so much of it out there today.

Yes, and the more shops you visit - the more different brands you learn were making it. Almost every antique shop will have at least one vintage orange item. It's just everywhere in the USA. I think it's probably up around 20 different companies made it but Fiesta is the most well-known. A while back I got lucky and found an assortment of 8 different salt and pepper shakers priced cheaply.

@@RadioactiveDrew I carry my little pancake detector when we visit antique stores. The most interesting find has been a very old pottery shard , highly weathered, which I can see specks of carbon in the glaze. This is probably very old, and somehow they knew adding natural uranium resulted in the color. I have no way of dating it, but it is about 2000+ cpm.

@@desertengineer1 and also popular for quite a long time, uranium glass.

If it was that radioactive these would be extremely dangerous.

​@@RadioactiveDrewExtremely dangerous isn't how I would describe it as much as low level radioactive waste, long term health effects, exposure, decay rate of 235, water and food contamination.. ect

I never said these were extremely dangerous. This also isn’t low level waste. Waste is a unwanted leftover product. This uranium has a purpose and was used as a pigment.

@@RadioactiveDrew How is it not low level radioactive waste? Even after the ceramic breaks down the rest of the uranium has to decay

It’s not waste because it’s not leftover from some other process. Waste is looking to be discarded.

If only that were true.

Yeah, that's pretty much how it goes.

Wow...thanks for that info. That's really cool. Next time I'm out that way I'll have to do some more exploring.

@@RadioactiveDrew - another pro tip from a former area resident: if you go to Coors to uh, inspect the facilities, ask at the front desk for the “short tour”. That’s the secret code from locals to skip the obligatory brewery tour and pass directly to the elevator to the tasting room. A great pit-stop on a warm day. Also investigate the very famous “Morrison Formation” which was/is a rich uranium deposit visible in the cliffs directly behind and to the south of famous Cache Creek “It’s the water…”. Lastly, don’t forget about investigating Rocky Flat, just a few minutes North. It was a huge plutonium lab and superfund site. There are still items conveniently forgotten and not often repeated about the plume of pollution that extended into surrounding communities to its north and a reservoir that can never go dry, lest the dried mud from the bottom ever become dust in the atmosphere. Lots of radioactive things to pursue.

I didn’t know!

They even made ceramic golf putters, I picked one up in a thrift store last year. Had "ZrO2" impressed on the bottom so I assume it was made specifically from zirconium dioxide.

Coors is world renouned for its porcalain. The heat shield plates on the shuttle were made by Coors.There beer is knoen mostly in the US. I lived Golden for a long time.

No problem.

Thanks for the sub. I'm planning on going back out there next week to do another video about the site and some areas around there.

I wouldn't doubt that. This color was extremely popular back in the day.

A couple people have told me about this. Would love to go back to Germany one day...plenty of cool sites to visit.

No problem...glad you like them.

Thanks.

No problem. Glad you liked it.

Why the quotes?

Yeah, that orange / red can be some of the stronger items you can find in antique shops. There is something about that color as well, along with the style from that time period.

Glad you enjoyed the video. There is a bunch of new Fiestaware that doesn’t use uranium. But there’s a lot out there that does.

Thanks for being with me along the way.

That’s usually why I like them…they look cool and they’re decently hot.

oh hey you watch him too Backyardscience2000 lol,@@RadioactiveDrew i have a decent collection of U-Glass most of mine is just the green glass, i do however have a small Glazed Fiestaware Plate, it gets about 3300CPM so not very hot at all, it is really fun finding that stuff in antique stores, i have a local one i go in every now and then where i got the fiestaware plate, i actually found a Radium Painted Vase before in there, only a couple small spots were painted with it but i still got i think it was like 250CPM off it, and ive seen some of that milky Uranium Glassware, sadly for those and the radium painted one i didn't have the money to get them and next time i went in there someone else had snagged them. i really wanna go out to the wooded lake access near me since there are large amounts of Rocks that have been Blasted out Due to the Dam being constructed, i want to see if i could find any Uraninite or possibly some Autunite would be awesome lol

I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Some people overreact to radiation.

Yeah those ceramics have a very cool look.

Uh oh i hope you havent been eating off of it too much.

I also suspect I have a few of those orange ceramics. I need to buy a Geiger counter for measurements.

Thanks…glad you like the content.

I've seen some of these before. Usually they aren't as radioactive as these orange colored pieces.

There is also a brown glaze and a light tan one made from U. The color depends primarily on the atmosphere in the kiln during glazing.

As far as I know the guys mixing the glazes got the worst of it.

@@RadioactiveDrew It’s hard to prove who got the most exposure. The death from cancer is usually sufficiently long after exposure to prove the cause. Some might have got sick or died from the more immediate toxicity perhaps some got kidney failure.

What's much worse is the factories where radium military instruments were manufactured!

Thanks.

I’m glad.

Dang...that's a hot plate.

Thanks.

@@RadioactiveDrew your welcome 🤗

The Radeye B20 that I use costs $2000 now…use to be $1400. It’s kind of a lot for a Geiger counter but it’s great for my use. Glad you liked the video.

I’m glad you are finding these videos interesting.

I'm glad. Its always nice reading comments like that.

Thanks…and I’ve read about the radium girls. It’s a pretty horrific story.

Indeed, refined U without Ra daughters produces very little gamma radiation. The gamma filter definitely lets some beta through. If those plates were indeed 100uSv/h of gamma on contact, they would indeed be quite hot. Large chunks of rich U ore (with over 1kg of uranium) can register over 1mSv/h in gamma on contact. That's 10,000x background. Large rocks like that may be detected at 30ft away on a gamma scint!

I’m glad you’re enjoying the content.

@@RadioactiveDrew you have the best factual channel by far. I see so many Inaccuracies and clickbait on the topic of radiation.

I’ll keep that in mind. There are a lot of these items on eBay. Of course it’s kind of hard to tell if some of them are radioactive or not by photos alone.

You could totally use these items for a lifetime and have zero effects to your health. But you do take a chance using these...might not be a very big chance.

I could have tested it with the 102 or 103. But I’m fairly sure that it’s a uranium glaze. Might have to test it now that you brought it up.

I’m out exploring right now. Getting a bunch of footage. Way too windy to fly my drone today.

@@RadioactiveDrew I put gold prospecting aside for the profits of looking for geochemical uranium targets, it's thrilling!! since you convinced me to buy a geiger counter in your videos I see many radioactive hot spot that nobody even know.

No problem.

Very true. I think at that point most were using depleted uranium oxide.

Next time I'm on a flight I'll being doing this.

Thanks.

This was most of the collection.

Thanks.

I’ve heard of that as well. Some products had some ridiculous amounts of radium in them and others had none.

The Radeye has shot up in price. I bought mine in 2017 for $1300...now its over $2100.

Uranium has some very colorful oxidation states. From what I’ve seen with glazes is that when the uranium glaze is applied it looks yellow and after getting baked by the kiln it turns orange (uranium trioxide).

I do collect it. Just not as much as the ceramics.

Sounds like you are thinking about alpha radiation…that only goes a couple inches in air. Gamma radiation goes a very long way. But since these plates give off very little gamma it’s harder to detect further away.

They are.

Thanks.

I’ve seen some pieces that look like the ones you are describing. Uranium glazed ceramics can have some interesting colors that’s for sure.

@@RadioactiveDrew Truly! Happy hunting!

Natural cobalt isn’t radioactive. Cobalt-60 that is made in a nuclear reactor is.

The radiation is a great way to date certain objects.

Yes the amount of radium in uranium ore is extremely small. But the half-life of radium 226 is 1600 years which is much shorter than uranium 238 half-life of 4.5 billion years. This makes the radium much more radioactive even in far smaller quantities.

Trying to show that even though these are radioactive there’s nothing to fear.

@@RadioactiveDrew yeah, i think most people fear it because it could give you cancer.

That's pretty cool. I hope I can find more of those pieces next time I visit Colorado.

No problem…thanks for watching.

Yeah, unless you are eating the plates you should be okay.

Thanks.

Yeah it is interesting to see how much radon gas is produced with these different sources. Radium produces the most because it’s next in line after radium. Also it was Pu239 used in the Trinity test.

​@@RadioactiveDrewin this case, the radium produces more radon because the U glaze hadn't had long enough to reach equilibrium. Large pieces of U ore are absolutely packed with radon, since they've reached secular equilibrium. But even then, paint will emanate much more since most of the radon remains trapped in the ore, whereas the thin layer of the paint is much more permeable.

The reason why radium paint gives off so much more radon is because radium is right before radon in the decay series.

@@RadioactiveDrew erm, no, that doesn't apply when comparing to uranium ores, which is what I mentioned.

@@RadioactiveDrew radium paint is very porous and let's lots of radon escape. The glazes contain negligible radium, and hence produce essentially no radon. Uranium ore is packed with radium, and lots of radon, but with little opportunity for the radon gas to escape the rock and become airborne. A better way of wording what you're saying would be to say that U glazes contain negligible radium since they've had no time to reach equilibrium.

That is a good question. I think it might change but it would take an extremely long time for it to show up. The different oxidation states of uranium have some interesting colors. But I’m certain that would change when enough of it decayed into another element.

Unfortunately you & I will never know. Thanks for your reply!

I think that’s safe to say.

Yes, it’s safe to have in your house. I have a bunch in a display case, that blocks the majority of the radiation. I also have some pieces out in the open. The real problem is if the uranium gets inside you. I wouldn’t use them to eat out of to play it safe.

As long as you aren’t eating it you’re good.

So many people used these plates with zero health effects.

I have an Air Things radon monitor in my house. Doesn't get to any level I would be concerned about. Seen it as high as 30 pCi/l when we've been gone for a week or so with no air moving around in the house. usually its around 8-13 pCi/l. When I stick it in a cabinet full of radioactive items it goes up to 250-300 pCi/l.

@RadioactiveDrew I have the air things also and I had the door closed in the room I have all my stuff stored in and it got up to almost 16 which they definitely try to tell you is pretty high but I opened the window a crack and it goes right down to 2. But damn 200 to 300 that's pretty nuts that would be quite the waft coming in from opening the door of the cabinet! Do you keep your revigator in the same room? Did they hook you up with the 103 yet also? Their newest Geiger?

@hbenn420 I usually keep that Revigator in the garage with all the other too hot for the house items. I don’t open that cabinet very often plus I haven’t noticed the radon level going up since items have been in that cabinet. I’m sure they contribute to the radon in the house because that cabinet is far from air tight. Radiacode did send me out a 103, I’ve been using it as my primary for a while now.

Could be. It’s hard to say for sure unless you have a radiation detector of some kind.

No, it isn't radioactive enough.

No...the only bad idea would be to use metal utensils and acidic foods. As long as the glaze isn't clipped or cracked your ingestion of uranium should be next to nothing.

You’re not going to find any additional radiation in seafood from Fukushima. The ocean has a natural level of uranium dissolved in it. So much so it’s almost economical to extract it for nuclear fuel production. The tritium contaminated water that Fukushima is going to release with have zero effect and zero impact. But if you want to get a Geiger counter that’s pretty sensitive and can tell you which radioisotope your detecting than I would get the Radiacode 102.

Maybe some in the 0.7% U235 that is in these plates.

That's going to be a little while. I have some traveling coming up for videos on the channel. I'm hoping in the next couple of months I can start with the activation videos.

@@RadioactiveDrew OK, Thanks!

The Better Geiger is decent one to get started. But it’s going to have a hard time seeing the majority of the radiation that most radioactive antiques emit.

Well granite is slightly radioactive. But all the radiation for these ceramics is in the layer of glaze surrounding the pieces.

it was on the half middle on the x10 setting on my Geiger counter

Sounds like it might have been around 30,000 CPM if your scale is similar to the ones I use that have a 1x, 10x and 100x.

I take care of these. I hope to have them around for a while.

He did say not to eat off it , i agree with him, it would do harm if you are that 1% and ingest the uranium.