[ARC5] Yamato

[J. Forster]

I think so, but, if you had a chunk of 100% pure Radium and just left it
sitting somewhere, pretty soon it would no longer be pure Radium. It
decays rapidly into an entire zoo of stuff, and it'd be very hard to
figure out just what.

In addition to that, are you sure the Japs started with pure Radium?

Frankly, I'd not bet that the emissions are just Alpha.

-John

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> Isn't radium radiation Alpha? I had a radium-dial watch in the 1950s
> that tripped detectors while visiting a nuclear power plant. I was told
> it was harmless -  Alpha - would not penetrate skin. Just don't eat the
> stuff. But I know an old aircraft guy who got into a lot of trouble over
> luminous instrument dials. At one time my race car had surplus
> instruments that had that problem.
>   - Gordon White
>