Hazard of Radium Clock Hands

[Findm-Keepm]

Originally Posted by Eric H

.....The danger is more in inhaling small bits that flake off or ingesting it somehow.

Most of the people who died from Radium poisoning were the ladies who painted the hands, they licked the brush to get a point, painted their lips and teeth and so on, ignorant of the fact that it was toxic, it gets in the bones and stays there forever.

Normal exposure from a clock radio is probably negligible, still I wouldn't want one closer than several feet away from me while I slept for 8 hours.

+1 - As one that's been to both Ionizing and Non-ionizing radiation training, you get more radiation in your lifetime from the sun than any other source, unless you work in a nuclear field, uranium mining, preparing plutonium "cake", or are in the gamma source (Non-destructive testing, radiation therapy, etc) business.

[jr_tech]

Several years ago, I measured one of the famous radioactive meters on a R-390 receiver and found only about 5x background with the probe against the face of the meter... a few inches away the count was greatly reduced. The clock on my Zenith G516W was only slightly higher than the R-390 meter.

http://www.videokarma.org/showpost.p...9&postcount=11

I'm not worried about using the radio.

jr