Radioactive Red

Uranium prospector ☢️🇺🇸

[Radioactive Red @radioactivered]

Many people who follow my page don’t realize that I also spent time staking uranium mining claims. It’s something I’m genuinely proud of, I consider myself a uranium prospector in addition to being an amateur nuclear physicist.

I began selling uranium ore as a way to fund my growing collection of radioactive antiques and to support my ongoing outreach and education efforts online. There’s a deep well of radiological history and lore behind what I share here.

Thank you for being so kind and supportive of meeeee, it truly means a lot. ☢️💕

[Jeremy Allen, N1ZZZ @JeremyA46925042]

@radioactivered I am following you because that is one of the most unique hobbies I've ever encountered. I have more rad training than I ever thought possible, and that I hope to never use in the field.

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@kranzfafkaaa Thank you I needed this scared out of me, fr.

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@tfromthemeadow

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@qikka2888

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@hopes_revenge

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@AdrianDittmann

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@LeafusMaximus I don’t like this word on my page, bye.

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“Proescher stated that doses up to 1,000 µCi were tolerated well; he estimated that the lethal dose to a human was 60,000 µCi.”

Aight, so now we know not to go over 59,999 µCi of radium, got it. ☢️👍

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@pedestrian_red @fleshsimulated @83dollaroring My dream project but it’s expensive asf. 😩

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@RandoR3y 🫶

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I want to meet the WC-135R so bad. They fly around with specialized air sampling and radiation detection equipment, collecting data to look for evidence of nuclear activity through specific fission products like xenon-133.

Xenon-133 is one of the important isotopes they look for because it’s produced as a byproduct of nuclear fission. These radioactive isotopes are released into the atmosphere after nuclear detonations and during certain nuclear related activities like nuclear fuel reprocessing.

They aren’t necessarily flying around just detecting things that are radioactive in general, because naturally occurring radioactive materials are everywhere. They’re looking for specific radionuclides that can act as fingerprints of nuclear fission.

If you’re splitting atoms, one of these might just find you. ☢️

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@LeafusMaximus More like you because that has NOTHING to do with what I’m talking about.

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@LeafusMaximus NAW WTF IS THAT

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@pedestrian_red Definitely don’t hide!!!

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You really never know who are in the comments on this site, jeez that’s impressive. ☢️

[Red Sea Pedestrian @pedestrian_red]

I’m a EE by training, but somehow found myself in the plasma physics world during grad school (might have been because of the IEC fusor I built in undergrad, idk).

After I published my first plasma/nuclear physics paper in an academic journal, the next time I went to visit my brother in Israel (maybe 3 or 4 months later?), I was stopped at border control for the first time ever in my life and asked a bunch of security questions.

Some of the questions included asking where I went to school and synagogue growing up, how I know Hebrew, etc. Standard Israel departure security questions, never experienced them entering the country though. Then they asked me what I did. I said electrical engineer.

“Any other kind of engineering?”

“Some computer engineering when I was younger.”

“Sir, do you do any other kind of engineering?”

“No.”

They really wanted me to say nuclear and I was not going to answer that.

Pics related, they’re from my first foray into nuclear engineering and bombarding myself with fast neutrons to give myself super powers.

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@EthanGuthauser I know.😭

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@pedestrian_red @radiokaos666 @vxunderground

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@pedestrian_red @fleshsimulated @83dollaroring I’d have it in my living room, ngl.

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@youdoingtoomuch Soulmates

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@OutOfNaturel 😭💗

[CatsFriends @culKitten]

它看起来好紧张啊。

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@HellRaz0r1776 @randomfCKnuser Accurate