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.

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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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Radiation from a banana measured using a Geiger counter

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@littlebigfred @jonty @gigabecquerel No numbers! I wanted solid banana radiation dose numbers.

Here's a standard Australian grocery store banana (measured using an inexpensive phone dongle geiger counter of very uncertain accuracy): https://flic.kr/p/2mAxQNY
Came in a 0.34uSv/Hr - so that wall tile is about 32 of my bananas worth of radiation. Wikipedia's "banana equivalent does" is smaller, and that tile is about 110 banana equivalents according to their numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose

Geiger Counter - banana for scale

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@bigiain @littlebigfred @jonty Your granite plate will be 1000s of times more radioactive than the banana