Healthy living through radiation

[spudtater]

Suffering from chronic pain? Eczema? Asthma? Diabetes? How about a relaxing session down a radon mine?

Radon: the second leading cause of lung cancer in the U.S., now with health benefits! Honest!

Comments

[sigmonster.livejournal.com]

In the '3os you could buy ceramics with an uranium oxide glaze, purely for the colours. (Having checked my facts: made in the '30s, not made during the Manhattan Project years, but back again after the war right the way up to 1969, and used depleted uranium oxide for a few years after that.) Worst-case estimate was 4.5 grams of uranium per plate. Radiation dosage negligible.

Nonetheless, I prefer inert tableware, if it's all the same to you.

[spudtater.livejournal.com]

Yowchies. Radon-impregnated food, anyone?
The old radium glow-in-the-dark paint was a little worrying, too. this is funny.   8^)

[sigmonster.livejournal.com]

Linkage:Fiestaware, or search for "uranium ceramic tableware".