Jonty WareingFeb 6, 2023

Favourite thing I've learned in 2023: Rosenthaler Platz U-Bahn station in Berlin is entirely decorated with radioactive uranium glazed tiles.

@gigabecquerel visited with a geiger counter to check.

https://chaos.social/@gigabecquerel/109818433760462038

gigabecquerel (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 video The whole fucking station is uranium glazed??? That must be tens of kg of uranium! Hot damn I almost didn't want to leave Edit: Fuck sake there are so many armchair experts here. NO, this is NOT dangerous! Radiation is all around you and so far you have done just fine surviving that. It's a nice color and an interesting historical fact, and that's all there's to it.

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Show threadAnthony Steele

@jonty @gigabecquerel

Oh, what's the Geiger counter style device that you are using? If it's affordable and easy for a layman to use then I might be interested.

Feb 6, 2023 at 5:15pmWeb
Show threadgigabecquerelFeb 6, 2023
@anthony_steele @jonty It's the RKS 20.03 "Pripyat", used to be <100€ on ebay, but prices are exploding in the last few years.
It's a very good devices, measures accurately, you only have to figure out the cyrilic instructions in the front ;-)
It's my first ever geiger counter, and still my daily runner for most stuff, it just works great
Show threadAnthony SteeleFeb 6, 2023

@gigabecquerel @jonty

Seems to be about £150 on ebay now. and there are instruction videos on youtube.

Show threadmsgbiFeb 7, 2023
@gigabecquerel @anthony_steele @jonty @charles_ex @aloa5 election. Whole thing