Goiana?!.. Then what about Falluja, Kirkuk, Bagdad, Basra, a good part of Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo and Serbia?!..Or Lybia recently! Fully populated places! Not in the middle of the jungle! Or Chernobyl (Kiev) or Fukushima!.. Goiana is zero compared to these. If you really have guts go to one of those places!... Chernobyl is around 1000 km from Berlin, why bother going to Brasil?!.. It's far and expensive. Do you know what I think?!.. I think you actually wanna go to Rio, not to Goiana!... :P
You re so crazy!... :) why are you doing this?... There are plenty of nice guys in this world, for real!.. (even if you probably don t find them at every corner, that s probably true, but that s also true for ladies, too!.. :) ) anyway, why Brazil? Where and why is radioactivity there?! There are no nukes there as far as I know.. Rather Irak and Afghanistan should be checked (or wherever US military has intervened)...
Some guy has really got this lady so pissed that she finds digging for uranium and collecting it in her bathroom real fun and the time of her life!.. Is she still alive?... By the way, if she is so courageous why doesn t she go check out radioactivity levels in Bosnia, Kosovo, Lybia, Cernobyl, Fukushima, Semipalatinsk, Nova Zemlea, Nevada and other such fun places that will continue to spread for the next couple of billions of years what other curious people experimented.
thanks for the suggestions! i am working on visiting both chernobyl and brazil within the next months for a report on the levels of radioactivity there. i dont know how to get permission to enter the fukushima area currently - but if anybody has a suggestion, let me know, and i'll be on my way asap. :)
I love how open Germany is to its public, like, yeah sure, come on in sister! Here in America, if you look in the wrong direction, you might just disappear into one of Cready's black bags if you know what I mean.
5:35 - my mouth dropped open. Very very interesting videos! Thanks for making them. Could I politely suggest you invest in a high definition video camera? Would make it even better!
would the material you have collected exhibit enough radioactivity such that it might be harmful or even fatal if small amounts were ingested... i say this because as you pointed out yourself, it wouldn't be too difficult to get it all over the house upon returning from a field trip and it could ultimately come into contact with food production surfaces...
nope, no acute symptoms to be expected if small amounts are ingested. however, may or may not increase the risk for cancer later in life. impossible to tell, as it'd be a stochastic damage with minor amounts of radioactive material, not possible to tell if it was REALLY the uranium ore, or if my cancer came from that one visit to a smoker's bar.
@bionerd23 OK, thanks... I was thinking about more acute symptoms and severe cellular damage, such as what happened to Alexander Litvinenko in 2006, although I do realise that the radioactivity with the Polonium-210 used, would be much greater than with your naturally occuring Uranium minerals. I am a toxicologist and thought it interesting that such radioactive minerals were so easy come by in the environment.
Great videos, always informative, and thanks for responding to my question.
granite contains uranium and brazil nuts contain radium, and bananas contain radioactive pottasium, consider that the next time you are scared about radiation
Hey hey hey, ahhh....Can you reduce uranium oxides from uraninite to uranium metal using magnesium? or maybe coke? If possible, can you try that later and show it for us?
@SteamMonkey115 She won't have her lifespan going down. That is just some mediocre radiation levels. And she is not eating the materials. She will be fine.
well, it's not possible to create a critical mass from something as impure as the uranium ORE shown here.
however, there's some spontaneous fission going on in natural uranium; most of it alpha-decays, but some fissions, too (that's why enough of the pure metal U-235 in one spot results in a critical mass). the resulting neutrons, when striking U-238 nuclei, will inevitable result in a few plutonium-239 atoms in the ore - but they're too few to measure.
yes. fission neutrons typically have around 2 MeV afaik, so that'll lead to a single capture here and there, i suppose. not enough to detect it with easy means, but the plutonium atoms are there. :)
intresting video, but i think you are being reckless with your health anything that can alter your dna should be left alone unless of course its a woman
Your videos certainly reflect your passion for radioactivity. You excite, entertain, and educate, marvelous combination. Many thanks for your dedication and sharing.
I expected the mine to glow blue, but then again there is no water, so no Cherenkov radiation. Either way, would picking up and physically touching the pitchblende be dangerous? I know it's not that radioactive but isn't uranium toxic?
you need a PERFECT dipole (so as pure as possible water, H2O - not minerals etc. etc. that are usually in it) AND quite a bit of particle radiation in order to produce cerenkov radiation. :P
and yeah, uranium is a toxic heavy metal. try not to ingest it.
vom wem? von den leuten, die da wohnen? kann schon sein, dass die keine ahnung haben bzw. das ignorieren - ist ja anderswo auch so. das bundesamt fuer strahlenschutz hat aber eine seite, die vor dem verzehr von z.b. wildschweinfleisch warnt, da es mehrere zehntausend becquerel / kg an radio-caesium (Cs-137) enthalten kann (je nach dem, was das schweinderl so gefressen hat im wald).
hä?? die Strahlenwerte von den Messstellen sind öffentlich abrufbar:
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of course it does, yeah. with the "gamma" setting, only hard betas and gammas are measured. with the "alpha" setting, even alpha radiation is measured, which of course produces higher pulses. it's not practical to leave the sensitive window exposed in the field, though, but sorry for any confusion... please see e.g. watch?v=MvzqBs3KHAg for more info.
Yea Uranium from reactors produces sieverts not your little micro sieverts. A sievert is the amount of disintegration per second in a kilogram of mass. Rather dangerous but if you don't care about your life span then its not a big deal.
@JmMcC82 Wrong! Sievert is a SI unit [J/kg] of absorbed radiation energy per kilogram of biological tissue. For non-biological absorbtion, the unit Grey (Gy) is used. Desintegration per second is measured in Bq (Bequerels), while 1Bq=1 desintegration/sec. Fissible Uranium U-235 and Plutonium Pu-239 produce Alpha-radiation (He-nuclei). Human skin or even a sheet of paper is enough to shield this type of radiation.
a sievert (Sv) is the energy dose multiplied with the radiation weighting factor of the specific radiation (alpha, beta, photon, neutron radiation). the energy dose is the unit Gray (Gy), which is energy divided by absorbing mass, or Joule/Kilogram.
Becquerel or Curie is the unit for ACTIVITY of a material (as SH0LVA stated).
U-235 mainly undergoes alpha decay, but rarely also Spontaneous Fission, producing neutrons. daughters of U-235 furthermore emit gamma radiation.
@bionerd23 Still wrong! Both Sv and Gy are specific absorbed radiation energy units [J/kg==Ws/kg], while Sv is used for biological tissue (together with the empirically found weighting coefficient) and Gy is used for other matter. The term 'activity' is defined by desintegrations (=decays) per second as mentioned. Nearly correct is however your statement about U-235, when the term 'dauthers' refers to fission products. Also non-fission products can be activated by fast neutrons by n-capturing.
haha you are fucking awesome.... I was attracted to mineralogy because of the colors and beauty (art school grad) and my favorite was always metatorbenite.
super video! wat did you pay for the geiger meter? its a plase here in southern Norway named musekollen that has massive amounts if thorium and uranium i would like to explore.
I have read that 100 mSv/year is the lowest level known to increase chance of cancer, Is the Geiger counter you are using calibrated to mSv/hr? If so, just being around those rocks for 1 hour would already be a dangerous limit for the entire year! If I am wrong can someone please let me know. Also, google the "elephants foot at chernobyl" radiation is said to be 10,000 REM which = 100,000 mSv/hr!
no, it reads uSv/h (microsievert/hour). also, the ore is a point source (though not exactly as small as one would imagine a "point", it's still a point source from a sufficient distance). the dose directly AT the source is large, but it quickly diminishes with distance as of the inverse square law. thus, only the hands get the whole dose, but not the whole body. in chernobyl (or now, fukushima), you get the dose reading as a WHOLE BODY DOSE, which makes all the difference.
now i know where to get them haha..now to find a mine in Nevada.
isn't kind of un safe to have all those rocks in your home? do you keep them sealed in a lead lined container? i would be worried long term about it putting radon into the air
yeah, i have them in sealed display cases (acrylic and see-through, very nice, you can get them as e.g. train model display cases). that prevents radon from escaping, which is a vital protection.
further on, i'm shielding the rich pitchblende ore with lead, so called "diver's lead" - basically bricks of lead that are very easy to duct tape together and cheaper than most other forms of "professional" lead bricks.
I have read that 100 mSv/year is the lowest level known to increase chance of cancer, Is the Geiger counter you are using calibrated to mSv/hr? If so, just being around those rocks for 1 hour would already be a dangerous limit for the entire year! If I am wrong can someone please let me know. Also, google the "elephants foot at chernobyl" radiation is said to be 10,000 REM which = 100,000 mSv/hr!
Are you going to refine it ? Or is it illegal to stick in a bucket of water and hamer into a mud than filter out the heavy uranium from the light rock.
well, it'd quickly turn illegal to refine uranium, yes. the minerals fall under laws for "minerals for collection purposes", so you can basically stack buckets full of them at home (but should have a LOT of lead then, lol). once you start to actually PROCESS the ore, you have to follow the laws of radiological protection, which only allow certain small quantities (which are clearly defined in the law) to be handled without license. so if you'd process a bucket full, it'd be a crime.
you haven't use a protective gloves, those uranium dusts might come in contact with your skin, you better have potassium permanganate solution in your home too...
in theory, there's no "safe" level. any level can cause mutations and cancer. but e.g. a CT scan (8 mSv acute dose) is said to increase your cancer risk by 0.15% - but it does not cause any direct symptoms of radiation sickness, it's only so-called "stochastic" damage. true radiation sickness starts from 200 mSv as an ACUTE dose.
@northstarprovids Well if you are dying, try rubbing it all over your body see if extra limbs will grow. Eat some, or when u die please go in style and tape it for youtube....
1. Jump off the plane with no parachute ( Or have forks and spoons instead of parachute... (will be viral vid))
Sorry to sound like a sexist but its cool for a lady to take interest for such stuff. Coz most ladies I know are only interested in travel, fancy restaurants & cosmetics.
If you touch Natural Uranium without gloves, then you are in danger. The particles will harm you over time considering your body is gettings a lot more radiation than normal. (Like the Uranium she put in a bucket to take home, that's dumb. Your meter at home read .15 while the uranium itself read a radiation of 114.7) Use your head lady. Get rid of it.
Uranium that's found in ores does produce more radiation than other elements, but it is natural radiation. This type of radiation in nature does not post a serious health risk. What does post a health risk, is mining Uranium in the presence of radon gas, which is naturally produced by uranium in nature. Other than that, don't get uranium on your skin, even though it is natural, it can still produce harmful outcomes if it's particles are clinging to you 24/7
what are rads compared to sieverts am confused on the units am sure a human can recieve up to 200rads and recieve a little but not a lot of poison and the average human takes 1000rads and will die
I have to say, bionerd, I found this video to be quite facinating and enjoyable to watch.
It would be nice if some of the commenters would stop with the "you're gonna get cancer and die now" nonsense, showing their ignorance of how radiation actually works.
Guys, the amount of radiation bionerd is working with is on the order of millisieverts...radiation sickness doesn't start happening until your get into Sievert range (several thousand times more).
He is, but in very very low amounts...we are talking millisievert levels. 2-3 sieverts will cause severe radiation sickness, and we are way below that point.
Mich würde mal interessieren, kann man denn bei den ehemaligen Wismut-Bergwerken einfach so Urane mitnehmen? Bei uns in der Nähe (ca. 30 bis 40 Kilometer) bei Weißenstadt hatte die BRD mal versucht Uran abzubauen für Kernkraftwerke, wurde allerdings nix, wegen Finanziellen und so. Habe zwar aus Weißenstadt was, auch von der Wismut aus Aue, jedoch strahlt das nich so schlimm, will mehr Strahlung ^^
ja, schon. ist in deutschland nicht verboten. allerdings sind die halden privatbesitz, d.h. da gelten auch "hausrechte". die wismut-halden werden derzeit vollstaendig "instandgesetzt", d.h. die landschaftliche zerstoerung wird rueckgaengig gemacht; saemtliche halden werden mit erde bedeckt und beforstet. in ein paar jahren ist nix mehr mit mineralien finden, leider... unter der woche sind dort dementsprechend arbeiten in gange und betreten verboten.
am wochenende sagt der sicherheitsdienst bei ein paar leuten (nicht mehr als 2-3) aber nix und ignoriert das ganze (die fahren da aber laufend lang, je nach personal und gemuetszustand ;) koennen die dann einen auch der halde verweisen, schliesslich besteht dort z.b. verletzungsgefahr durch absturz.
andere halden wiederum wurden z.b. als "wanderweg" gestaltet, z.b. die spitzkegelhalden in mechelgruen... ein uranwanderweg, echt lustig. :)
@bionerd23 Schade, dann werd ich wohl lieber noch mal um Weißenstadt laufen. Dort wird interessanter weise nichts reanturisiert, jedoch wurde hier auch in einem Stollen abgebaut.
@bionerd23 Von dort habe ich auch noch einen Stein, da weiß ich leider nur nicht was es ist. Der strahlt auch, komme aber nur auf 2,5 bis 3,0 µSv (hauptsächlich Alphastrahler) , leider weiß ich nicht, was das für ein Gestein ist. Nach rund einem Jahr, auch wenn man es ein Jahr Zuvorher entfernt hat, zerfällt der und es bildet sich irgendwie ein Staub...
@bionerd23 Hast vielleicht du Wissen darüber, was das sein könnte, also was für ein Stoff eventuell? Hinweise auf Uran habe ich in dem Gestein keine, weiß leider nicht.
hmm, nee, so kann man darueber nichts sagen... meta-formen der minerale (d.h. wasserentzug, sprich: austrocknung / lagerung an der luft) sind oft bruechig... das heisst nix spezifisches...
@bionerd23 Naja gut, der Stein ist auch schon einige Jahre alt ^^
Kann durchaus sein, darüber kenne ich mich nicht so aus. Interessanter weise, mein Vater hat eine vollständige Uranmineraliensammlung, jedoch ist solch ein Stein wie wir ihm im Haus haben nicht dabei. Nagut, trotzdem danke.
Where can you get one of those radiation detecting devices? I'd like to make sure I'm not currently being fried to death in my own home..
guitargod909 1 week ago
@guitargod909 check out ebay, those guys seem to be drowning in them
stefaan10111992 15 hours ago
Superman would have a bad time there
adrian5b 1 week ago
mmm... what someone can do with all that uranium?
dnilo159 1 week ago
Goiana?!.. Then what about Falluja, Kirkuk, Bagdad, Basra, a good part of Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo and Serbia?!..Or Lybia recently! Fully populated places! Not in the middle of the jungle! Or Chernobyl (Kiev) or Fukushima!.. Goiana is zero compared to these. If you really have guts go to one of those places!... Chernobyl is around 1000 km from Berlin, why bother going to Brasil?!.. It's far and expensive. Do you know what I think?!.. I think you actually wanna go to Rio, not to Goiana!... :P
raitaleo 1 week ago
You re so crazy!... :) why are you doing this?... There are plenty of nice guys in this world, for real!.. (even if you probably don t find them at every corner, that s probably true, but that s also true for ladies, too!.. :) ) anyway, why Brazil? Where and why is radioactivity there?! There are no nukes there as far as I know.. Rather Irak and Afghanistan should be checked (or wherever US military has intervened)...
raitaleo 1 week ago
@raitaleo Goiania.
caesiumsalad137 1 week ago
Some guy has really got this lady so pissed that she finds digging for uranium and collecting it in her bathroom real fun and the time of her life!.. Is she still alive?... By the way, if she is so courageous why doesn t she go check out radioactivity levels in Bosnia, Kosovo, Lybia, Cernobyl, Fukushima, Semipalatinsk, Nova Zemlea, Nevada and other such fun places that will continue to spread for the next couple of billions of years what other curious people experimented.
raitaleo 2 weeks ago
@raitaleo
thanks for the suggestions! i am working on visiting both chernobyl and brazil within the next months for a report on the levels of radioactivity there. i dont know how to get permission to enter the fukushima area currently - but if anybody has a suggestion, let me know, and i'll be on my way asap. :)
bionerd23 1 week ago
I love how open Germany is to its public, like, yeah sure, come on in sister! Here in America, if you look in the wrong direction, you might just disappear into one of Cready's black bags if you know what I mean.
DobsBomber 2 weeks ago
5:35 - my mouth dropped open. Very very interesting videos! Thanks for making them. Could I politely suggest you invest in a high definition video camera? Would make it even better!
bored1980 3 weeks ago
@bored1980
i did so just recently. couldnt afford a HD camera for a long time. doing science is one thing - but making money, i always failed at that. :P
bionerd23 1 week ago
Weißt du bereits, dass dieses Video von der GEMA in Deutschland geblockt wird?
RubertaLang 3 weeks ago
"green stuff" "omgah, so pretty"
kirosun 3 weeks ago
meanwhile in Germany.....
drgoop1 1 month ago
If you go to my website you can get a gamma spectrum for Autunite. Autunite is my favorite natural uranium. (Anti-Proton do t co m)
I a sample from washington State, USA.
Great video! I love the guy drilling uranium for the tour lol
antiprotons 1 month ago
what radiation detector is that
lewis9968 1 month ago
dont you just love the german roads that have NO speed limits
datafreak667 1 month ago
Hahaha you're so funny... 4:42 totally cracked me up lol. Nice find, I'd love to go rock hunting in a place like that!
NightRunner417 2 months ago
thumbs up if you got here from a mod from minecraft
McUniversalGriefTeam 2 months ago
can you send me few pieces of uranium? i live in Czech republic, so it´s close to you =)
Dri0m 3 months ago
Have you ever made yellow cake from your findings? =)
TheCrazyFinn 3 months ago
would the material you have collected exhibit enough radioactivity such that it might be harmful or even fatal if small amounts were ingested... i say this because as you pointed out yourself, it wouldn't be too difficult to get it all over the house upon returning from a field trip and it could ultimately come into contact with food production surfaces...
great vid
zillionz 3 months ago
@zillionz No, it would go out along with faeces, causing no damage.
SloveintzWend 3 months ago
@zillionz
nope, no acute symptoms to be expected if small amounts are ingested. however, may or may not increase the risk for cancer later in life. impossible to tell, as it'd be a stochastic damage with minor amounts of radioactive material, not possible to tell if it was REALLY the uranium ore, or if my cancer came from that one visit to a smoker's bar.
bionerd23 3 months ago
@bionerd23 OK, thanks... I was thinking about more acute symptoms and severe cellular damage, such as what happened to Alexander Litvinenko in 2006, although I do realise that the radioactivity with the Polonium-210 used, would be much greater than with your naturally occuring Uranium minerals. I am a toxicologist and thought it interesting that such radioactive minerals were so easy come by in the environment.
Great videos, always informative, and thanks for responding to my question.
Zillionz
zillionz 3 months ago
@bionerd23 U HAVE CANCER?!?!?!? should i wory
AlChemicalLife 1 month ago
Do you know if construction zones take radiation into account before building residential homes etc...?
logicCplusplus 3 months ago
@logicCplusplus Yeah, if they are building near Chernobyl.
Why are you afraid of Uranium ore? I bet you'll get irradiated by computer screen, not to mention cell phones, far more than by some natural uranium.
SloveintzWend 3 months ago
@SloveintzWend
Did I say I was afraid?
logicCplusplus 3 months ago
@logicCplusplus So why do you ask?
SloveintzWend 3 months ago
@SloveintzWend
how about , out of interest?
logicCplusplus 3 months ago
@logicCplusplus
precautions to reduce radon levels, especially in basements, are taken in newer buildings, yes.
government agencies also provide radon measuring equipment for people concerned about that.
bionerd23 3 months ago
granite contains uranium and brazil nuts contain radium, and bananas contain radioactive pottasium, consider that the next time you are scared about radiation
ObservedFIREFLY 3 months ago
Hey hey hey, ahhh....Can you reduce uranium oxides from uraninite to uranium metal using magnesium? or maybe coke? If possible, can you try that later and show it for us?
b1912313 3 months ago
"THIS IS REALLY F***KING HOT!!"
JellycarpPhD 3 months ago
how come you don't get the radioactive stuff on you're skin?
Imafanofyou11 3 months ago
05:50 It looks like Tiberium From Command and Conquer series :D nice
fortzasteaua1234 4 months ago
So how dangerous is being in an area like that for a day?
ArchitekOGP 4 months ago
what are you doing here STALKER?!
SgtDamien 4 months ago
Ah, tick-tick-tock...is that the sound of a Geiger counter or my lifespan counting down? It's both!
SteamMonkey115 4 months ago
@SteamMonkey115 Freemans Mind for the win :P
ReaverTheSurvivalist 4 months ago
@SteamMonkey115 She won't have her lifespan going down. That is just some mediocre radiation levels. And she is not eating the materials. She will be fine.
b1912313 3 months ago
@b1912313 Ticking the clock toward cancer :P
SteamMonkey115 3 months ago
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@SteamMonkey115 oh you know nothing
b1912313 3 months ago
Yet another informative and interesting video BioNerd!
caddotservices 5 months ago
wouldn't having all that uranium ore so close together would create fission and result in plutonium?
modgemtb 5 months ago
@modgemtb
well, it's not possible to create a critical mass from something as impure as the uranium ORE shown here.
however, there's some spontaneous fission going on in natural uranium; most of it alpha-decays, but some fissions, too (that's why enough of the pure metal U-235 in one spot results in a critical mass). the resulting neutrons, when striking U-238 nuclei, will inevitable result in a few plutonium-239 atoms in the ore - but they're too few to measure.
bionerd23 5 months ago 2
@bionerd23 Was ist Critical Mass?
xXtolgasavasXx 3 months ago
@bionerd23 U238 needs fast neutrons to capture and become Pu239, no? For thermal neutrons, the cross section for U238 is quite small.
cortexedge 2 weeks ago
@cortexedge
yes. fission neutrons typically have around 2 MeV afaik, so that'll lead to a single capture here and there, i suppose. not enough to detect it with easy means, but the plutonium atoms are there. :)
bionerd23 1 week ago
now i now were to get my uranium supply to make me a nuke
btsouthmost 5 months ago
I just wana know how dangerous it is to search for uranium
dukilaki 5 months ago
What level is considered harmful towards human?
kujaftw 6 months ago
put it in a fish tank, and see what will happen to the fish.....lol
sean187u 6 months ago
uhm mal ne frage wieviel strahlung kp wie man c vac schreibt xD is tödlich?
wtfohno 7 months ago
what type of geiger counter is that?
butterfingers8008 7 months ago
@butterfingers8008 Gamma scout, it's expensive though :)
videotjes 6 months ago
@videotjes damn expensive :(
web1bastler 5 months ago
healthy... :D
cataa200 7 months ago
intresting video, but i think you are being reckless with your health anything that can alter your dna should be left alone unless of course its a woman
sweetscience1988 7 months ago
Is that not dangerous?
roberthemsley2 7 months ago 8
god rests her soul i was at her funeral!
samanbandana 7 months ago
Put one under a pillow. I've heard it helps you sleep.
ParaglidingManiac 7 months ago
Please go to Chernobyl,
About the radiation after 25 Years!? Pu-239 has half life of 24,100!
Just thinking ;)
peopledrivemecrazy 7 months ago
I love you, but please dont get sick, dont play with uranium!
lukacenko7 7 months ago
ummm GET THE FUCK OUT OF THAR
jimjimstudios 8 months ago
maybe you should irradiate the uranium to get plutonium
ryanlak1234 8 months ago
At what level of radiation does it get dangerous?
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454815775646n 8 months ago
Your videos certainly reflect your passion for radioactivity. You excite, entertain, and educate, marvelous combination. Many thanks for your dedication and sharing.
ahimsainternational 8 months ago
omg you get cancer of that radioactive stuff
NecipAksoy 8 months ago
5:30 is purrrrdy. Thanks for that. :)
supadupagmailcom 8 months ago
I expected the mine to glow blue, but then again there is no water, so no Cherenkov radiation. Either way, would picking up and physically touching the pitchblende be dangerous? I know it's not that radioactive but isn't uranium toxic?
iElite6809 8 months ago
@iElite6809
you need a PERFECT dipole (so as pure as possible water, H2O - not minerals etc. etc. that are usually in it) AND quite a bit of particle radiation in order to produce cerenkov radiation. :P
and yeah, uranium is a toxic heavy metal. try not to ingest it.
bionerd23 8 months ago
@bionerd23 would you die if you ingested a peice of uranium ore?
johnmarella 4 months ago
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SloveintzWend 3 months ago
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@johnmarella Uranium is a heavy metal(toxic), like led not good for eating. Serious brain, heart, kidney.. damage can occur.
SloveintzWend 3 months ago
No It is not nearly radioactive enough to enduce any poisoning
mageboi97 8 months ago
will you die cuz of that stuff?
TheIcecap100 8 months ago
fahr mal nach süddeutschland, da wird die verstrahlung durch tschernobyl total totgeschwiegen...
thefamousDrFeelgood 8 months ago
@thefamousDrFeelgood
vom wem? von den leuten, die da wohnen? kann schon sein, dass die keine ahnung haben bzw. das ignorieren - ist ja anderswo auch so. das bundesamt fuer strahlenschutz hat aber eine seite, die vor dem verzehr von z.b. wildschweinfleisch warnt, da es mehrere zehntausend becquerel / kg an radio-caesium (Cs-137) enthalten kann (je nach dem, was das schweinderl so gefressen hat im wald).
bionerd23 8 months ago
@thefamousDrFeelgood
hä?? die Strahlenwerte von den Messstellen sind öffentlich abrufbar:
odlinfo.bfs.de
Wird also gar nichts totgeschwiegen, aber man muss sich halt informieren und man muss diese Information auch richtig verstehen um sie korrekt bewerten zu können.
SuckSkin 7 months ago
What Does Uranium Useful For In Such Little Quantitys?
xInfected27x 8 months ago
DELICIOUSLY RADIOACTIVE! >:3
JonatanGronoset 8 months ago
cool, are they hot or warm? I mean the Uraniums.
pyrioni 8 months ago
mi regali un sasso di uranio? io ti regalo una piastrella radioattiva...
MrACMILANFOREVER 9 months ago
ты дура блять,хочешь лучевую болезнь на 4:30 споймать???
2kden 9 months ago
6 – 10 Sv (6000 – 10000 mSv): Above symptoms plus central nervous system impairment; death expected.
syedjaafar 9 months ago
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nolan879 9 months ago
Those alien rocks are cool but they tend to scare me.
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Ganer3320 9 months ago
@bionerd23 that ain't healthy butcould you maybe explain how uranium forms? cauze i'd really like to know that
noobinstyle 9 months ago
@bionerd23 ,can you please tell me the exact location of the mine, there is a slight posibillity im gonna travel there
MrOverlord1000 9 months ago
At 4:30 you have the meter set to detect both alpha, beta and gamma.
(The lever positioned to the right)
Does not that affect the results?
Earlier in the video you have it set to only count gamma. (The lever pointing straight forward)
aoeiyu 9 months ago
@aoeiyu
of course it does, yeah. with the "gamma" setting, only hard betas and gammas are measured. with the "alpha" setting, even alpha radiation is measured, which of course produces higher pulses. it's not practical to leave the sensitive window exposed in the field, though, but sorry for any confusion... please see e.g. watch?v=MvzqBs3KHAg for more info.
bionerd23 9 months ago
Yea Uranium from reactors produces sieverts not your little micro sieverts. A sievert is the amount of disintegration per second in a kilogram of mass. Rather dangerous but if you don't care about your life span then its not a big deal.
JmMcC82 9 months ago
@JmMcC82 Wrong! Sievert is a SI unit [J/kg] of absorbed radiation energy per kilogram of biological tissue. For non-biological absorbtion, the unit Grey (Gy) is used. Desintegration per second is measured in Bq (Bequerels), while 1Bq=1 desintegration/sec. Fissible Uranium U-235 and Plutonium Pu-239 produce Alpha-radiation (He-nuclei). Human skin or even a sheet of paper is enough to shield this type of radiation.
SH0LVA 9 months ago
@SH0LVA, @JmMcC82
a sievert (Sv) is the energy dose multiplied with the radiation weighting factor of the specific radiation (alpha, beta, photon, neutron radiation). the energy dose is the unit Gray (Gy), which is energy divided by absorbing mass, or Joule/Kilogram.
Becquerel or Curie is the unit for ACTIVITY of a material (as SH0LVA stated).
U-235 mainly undergoes alpha decay, but rarely also Spontaneous Fission, producing neutrons. daughters of U-235 furthermore emit gamma radiation.
bionerd23 9 months ago
@bionerd23 Still wrong! Both Sv and Gy are specific absorbed radiation energy units [J/kg==Ws/kg], while Sv is used for biological tissue (together with the empirically found weighting coefficient) and Gy is used for other matter. The term 'activity' is defined by desintegrations (=decays) per second as mentioned. Nearly correct is however your statement about U-235, when the term 'dauthers' refers to fission products. Also non-fission products can be activated by fast neutrons by n-capturing.
SH0LVA 9 months ago
Take up smoking as a hobby. You'll live longer.
guitarcapo 9 months ago 2
omg are you mad? cant u get cancer from this shit?
jijdom 9 months ago
haha you are fucking awesome.... I was attracted to mineralogy because of the colors and beauty (art school grad) and my favorite was always metatorbenite.
WatercolorLoving 9 months ago
Apparently, being near Uranium makes you talk funny. I kid, I kid, cool video.
kiminicooper1 10 months ago
What is radioactive danger noumbers?
imTheMrBEAN 10 months ago
3:42 Did you notice that the electrons are moving at this part of the video?
TheMagnum972 10 months ago
Great video! Keep up the good work. I have ordered a dosimeter but they are currently out of stock due to the events in Japan.
There is a Wiki page that might be interesting called
'Radiation watch Wiki'
Xaphooncat 10 months ago
Passen sie aber gut auf das sie sich nicht zu viel Radioaktivität ausetzten. Ich möchte mir vorsorglich auch so ein Geigerzähler zulegen.
Regenbogen3580 10 months ago
My community is pretty high in Uranium content as well, in America. I always wanted a Geiger counter.
t3hPoundcake 10 months ago
super video! wat did you pay for the geiger meter? its a plase here in southern Norway named musekollen that has massive amounts if thorium and uranium i would like to explore.
surplusdriller 10 months ago
@surplusdriller
the "alert" version of the "gamma scout" cost me 350 euros.
bionerd23 10 months ago
HOLY SHIT!
analyzingfunny 10 months ago
I have read that 100 mSv/year is the lowest level known to increase chance of cancer, Is the Geiger counter you are using calibrated to mSv/hr? If so, just being around those rocks for 1 hour would already be a dangerous limit for the entire year! If I am wrong can someone please let me know. Also, google the "elephants foot at chernobyl" radiation is said to be 10,000 REM which = 100,000 mSv/hr!
justinhhhfan 10 months ago
@justinhhhfan
no, it reads uSv/h (microsievert/hour). also, the ore is a point source (though not exactly as small as one would imagine a "point", it's still a point source from a sufficient distance). the dose directly AT the source is large, but it quickly diminishes with distance as of the inverse square law. thus, only the hands get the whole dose, but not the whole body. in chernobyl (or now, fukushima), you get the dose reading as a WHOLE BODY DOSE, which makes all the difference.
bionerd23 10 months ago 2
@justinhhhfan 100 millisieverts causes an increase in cancer. the geiger counter is in microsieverts. 1000 micro sieverts in a millisievert.
phixxwutwut 10 months ago
@phixxwutwut
Ok, thanks for clarifying, I am embarrassed to admit that I payed no attention the the prefix, that makes more sense though.
justinhhhfan 10 months ago
I'n made a secial box for my radioactive minerals.
Bonsay3 10 months ago
nice video.
now i know where to get them haha..now to find a mine in Nevada.
isn't kind of un safe to have all those rocks in your home? do you keep them sealed in a lead lined container? i would be worried long term about it putting radon into the air
bottle2lip 10 months ago
@bottle2lip
yeah, i have them in sealed display cases (acrylic and see-through, very nice, you can get them as e.g. train model display cases). that prevents radon from escaping, which is a vital protection.
further on, i'm shielding the rich pitchblende ore with lead, so called "diver's lead" - basically bricks of lead that are very easy to duct tape together and cheaper than most other forms of "professional" lead bricks.
bionerd23 10 months ago
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@bionerd23
Sorry, accidentally posted below,
I have read that 100 mSv/year is the lowest level known to increase chance of cancer, Is the Geiger counter you are using calibrated to mSv/hr? If so, just being around those rocks for 1 hour would already be a dangerous limit for the entire year! If I am wrong can someone please let me know. Also, google the "elephants foot at chernobyl" radiation is said to be 10,000 REM which = 100,000 mSv/hr!
justinhhhfan 10 months ago
great vid thanks, does it not scare you being around the ore?
thefloorjacker 10 months ago
Are you going to refine it ? Or is it illegal to stick in a bucket of water and hamer into a mud than filter out the heavy uranium from the light rock.
Pdariean 10 months ago
@Pdariean
well, it'd quickly turn illegal to refine uranium, yes. the minerals fall under laws for "minerals for collection purposes", so you can basically stack buckets full of them at home (but should have a LOT of lead then, lol). once you start to actually PROCESS the ore, you have to follow the laws of radiological protection, which only allow certain small quantities (which are clearly defined in the law) to be handled without license. so if you'd process a bucket full, it'd be a crime.
bionerd23 10 months ago
geiger counter is called gamma-scout, good make
shakin2009 10 months ago
The mineral is called Uraninite(Ουρανίτης in greek) UH2 or UH3
U=Uranium(Ουράνιο) H =Hydrogen(Υδρογόνο)
Nikechagias 10 months ago
you haven't use a protective gloves, those uranium dusts might come in contact with your skin, you better have potassium permanganate solution in your home too...
phukemonster 10 months ago
so whats the safe level of radaiation?
MCDEVVOMAN 10 months ago
@MCDEVVOMAN
in theory, there's no "safe" level. any level can cause mutations and cancer. but e.g. a CT scan (8 mSv acute dose) is said to increase your cancer risk by 0.15% - but it does not cause any direct symptoms of radiation sickness, it's only so-called "stochastic" damage. true radiation sickness starts from 200 mSv as an ACUTE dose.
bionerd23 10 months ago
lick one and record what happens! I'm curious!
ccrpalex 10 months ago 9
@ccrpalex haha man your funny
WeepBeforeYouSleep 10 months ago
@ccrpalex happening #1 : My tounge started glowing green
happening #1 : It developed a large growth
happening #3 it fell off
happening #4 2 months of recovery
happening #5 i might by dying soon. Kids : dont lick uranium
northstarprovids 7 months ago
@northstarprovids Well if you are dying, try rubbing it all over your body see if extra limbs will grow. Eat some, or when u die please go in style and tape it for youtube....
1. Jump off the plane with no parachute ( Or have forks and spoons instead of parachute... (will be viral vid))
2. Jump in front of a moving truck at 80mph
3. Something awesome and creative... :)
ccrpalex 7 months ago
It's amazing :)
adamsas22 10 months ago
Sorry to sound like a sexist but its cool for a lady to take interest for such stuff. Coz most ladies I know are only interested in travel, fancy restaurants & cosmetics.
macrick 10 months ago 30
go look at the radiation numbers in hiroshima :P
ThaGrimmshow 10 months ago
first of i dont think i wold want my body anywhere near that stuff
MrShaun1578 11 months ago
sell it to iran.they will pay you millions
mundukadiyan 11 months ago
If you touch Natural Uranium without gloves, then you are in danger. The particles will harm you over time considering your body is gettings a lot more radiation than normal. (Like the Uranium she put in a bucket to take home, that's dumb. Your meter at home read .15 while the uranium itself read a radiation of 114.7) Use your head lady. Get rid of it.
Bonnman100 11 months ago
@Bonnman100
Leme guess you got a B- in physics and think your a nuclear physicist?
snedie69er 11 months ago
@snedie69er no, but i know enough about it to know it can be harmful in different ways
Bonnman100 11 months ago
Uranium that's found in ores does produce more radiation than other elements, but it is natural radiation. This type of radiation in nature does not post a serious health risk. What does post a health risk, is mining Uranium in the presence of radon gas, which is naturally produced by uranium in nature. Other than that, don't get uranium on your skin, even though it is natural, it can still produce harmful outcomes if it's particles are clinging to you 24/7
Bonnman100 11 months ago
That was never in any case low resolution. All of it was in stunning 360p.
jjovereats 11 months ago
This was such a cool video, thanks for posting!!
theshtgoose 1 year ago
sweet thats fucking uranium
bibi4u200 1 year ago
are you out of your mind????? uranium emmits gamma radiation.... !!!!! you can get cancerrr!!!!!
Liam22Debono 1 year ago
@Liam22Debono it's not the same kind of radiation.
Bonnman100 11 months ago
what are rads compared to sieverts am confused on the units am sure a human can recieve up to 200rads and recieve a little but not a lot of poison and the average human takes 1000rads and will die
jcyeahful 1 year ago
@jcyeahful
100 rads are 1 sievert.
bionerd23 1 year ago
Demnächst kommen in Berlin die Grünen an die Macht, dann is aber aus mit Deinem Hobby, Du verstrahlter Atom-Nerd Du. :)
Skandalos 1 year ago
there mostly found in canada
88pie88 1 year ago
OMG! 4:30-4:48!
MrVirvoitusjuoma123 1 year ago
Can you put these in a fish tank with a UV light? That would look cool i bet!
claudis192 1 year ago
I have to say, bionerd, I found this video to be quite facinating and enjoyable to watch.
It would be nice if some of the commenters would stop with the "you're gonna get cancer and die now" nonsense, showing their ignorance of how radiation actually works.
Guys, the amount of radiation bionerd is working with is on the order of millisieverts...radiation sickness doesn't start happening until your get into Sievert range (several thousand times more).
columbusmozart 1 year ago
@RH2dogs
He is, but in very very low amounts...we are talking millisievert levels. 2-3 sieverts will cause severe radiation sickness, and we are way below that point.
columbusmozart 1 year ago
Well, "Uranocicite" and "Autonite" are pronounced similar, except the "nite" is pronounced with a long "i" sound (=ei as in "heil")
columbusmozart 1 year ago
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columbusmozart 1 year ago
lol in the mine where germans.
DjM0rgenstern 1 year ago
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4:32 lol you have been exposed..... moron
shawnio 1 year ago
lol you now have leukimia thanks for uploading!
7.4 and up is sufficient to alter your cells Genetic DNA please dont have children
shawnio 1 year ago
how do you not get radiation poisoning? and could i do that if i went to berlin?
Ricky32908 1 year ago
@Ricky32908
1. the dose rate is MUCH too low to induce radiation poisoning
2. no, as these rocks cannot be found in berlin in abundance, you'd need to go to middle-east or southern germany.
bionerd23 1 year ago 7
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@bionerd23 how do you want to know that?
DjM0rgenstern 1 year ago
isnt that toxic???
GSmiami 1 year ago
Just more one thing. If you turn the UV light on, can you see the autunite or any others uranium sources shining without using a camera?
cassiavc 1 year ago
@cassiavc
yes you can, no problem at all. they luminescence occurs in colors that are visible to the human eye (green). :)
bionerd23 1 year ago
@bionerd23 so how do you separate the uranium from the rocks?
ryanlak1234 1 year ago
Mich würde mal interessieren, kann man denn bei den ehemaligen Wismut-Bergwerken einfach so Urane mitnehmen? Bei uns in der Nähe (ca. 30 bis 40 Kilometer) bei Weißenstadt hatte die BRD mal versucht Uran abzubauen für Kernkraftwerke, wurde allerdings nix, wegen Finanziellen und so. Habe zwar aus Weißenstadt was, auch von der Wismut aus Aue, jedoch strahlt das nich so schlimm, will mehr Strahlung ^^
NuklearTV 1 year ago
@NuklearTV
ja, schon. ist in deutschland nicht verboten. allerdings sind die halden privatbesitz, d.h. da gelten auch "hausrechte". die wismut-halden werden derzeit vollstaendig "instandgesetzt", d.h. die landschaftliche zerstoerung wird rueckgaengig gemacht; saemtliche halden werden mit erde bedeckt und beforstet. in ein paar jahren ist nix mehr mit mineralien finden, leider... unter der woche sind dort dementsprechend arbeiten in gange und betreten verboten.
bionerd23 1 year ago
@NuklearTV
am wochenende sagt der sicherheitsdienst bei ein paar leuten (nicht mehr als 2-3) aber nix und ignoriert das ganze (die fahren da aber laufend lang, je nach personal und gemuetszustand ;) koennen die dann einen auch der halde verweisen, schliesslich besteht dort z.b. verletzungsgefahr durch absturz.
andere halden wiederum wurden z.b. als "wanderweg" gestaltet, z.b. die spitzkegelhalden in mechelgruen... ein uranwanderweg, echt lustig. :)
da ist aber schon alles "geerntet"...
bionerd23 1 year ago
@bionerd23 Schade, dann werd ich wohl lieber noch mal um Weißenstadt laufen. Dort wird interessanter weise nichts reanturisiert, jedoch wurde hier auch in einem Stollen abgebaut.
NuklearTV 1 year ago
@bionerd23 Von dort habe ich auch noch einen Stein, da weiß ich leider nur nicht was es ist. Der strahlt auch, komme aber nur auf 2,5 bis 3,0 µSv (hauptsächlich Alphastrahler) , leider weiß ich nicht, was das für ein Gestein ist. Nach rund einem Jahr, auch wenn man es ein Jahr Zuvorher entfernt hat, zerfällt der und es bildet sich irgendwie ein Staub...
NuklearTV 1 year ago
@bionerd23 Hast vielleicht du Wissen darüber, was das sein könnte, also was für ein Stoff eventuell? Hinweise auf Uran habe ich in dem Gestein keine, weiß leider nicht.
NuklearTV 1 year ago
@NuklearTV
hmm, nee, so kann man darueber nichts sagen... meta-formen der minerale (d.h. wasserentzug, sprich: austrocknung / lagerung an der luft) sind oft bruechig... das heisst nix spezifisches...
bionerd23 1 year ago
@bionerd23 Naja gut, der Stein ist auch schon einige Jahre alt ^^
Kann durchaus sein, darüber kenne ich mich nicht so aus. Interessanter weise, mein Vater hat eine vollständige Uranmineraliensammlung, jedoch ist solch ein Stein wie wir ihm im Haus haben nicht dabei. Nagut, trotzdem danke.
NuklearTV 1 year ago
Lustig. Sehr "natürlich" die alte Uran-Mine! Naja...für nen Berliner ist ja irgendwie alles Natur, was ausserhalb der Stadt ist, oder?
slub1 1 year ago
Where can I get one of those radioactivity reading devices you have... I want one =D
LustxFilledxEyesx13 1 year ago