I use a Geiger-Mueller device to test the ionizing radiation from Thoriated Welding Tungstens, USA Aluminum and Japan Steel.
Good news; none of the aluminum nor steel showed any discernable Cobalt-60 contamination.

By AvvE

18 thoughts on “Testing radiation from tungsten, japanese steel welding metals tested”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jacob Castro says:

    55,000 unread emails is a very respectable amount.

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars bad youtube channel says:

    This guy is so fucking smart man
    An actual gift to us all

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jake Lynch says:

    Is it the same for tungsten carbide tool tipsโ€ฆ. They are always in my pocketโ€ฆ.

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Brayden Carlgren says:

    Can you get your paws on a led sheet from a hospital? Like what they use in a X-ray lab.

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Glen DeKoker says:

    Tell me Ave the Canadian nukes cool reactors with clean lake water drains hot everyone fish there. Wouldn't the water be radio active?

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars James Ocker says:

    We used xenon gas excited by cesium 137 for our densitometer, high voltage on xenon canister. Has photo multiplier tube at end of cannister. Gas glows and tube measured brightness. Less brightness more dense material in tube. For measuring desity of solids in a fluid thanks for covering this

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Oxylepy says:

    The inverse square law isnt intuitive because people arent thinking of it as the surface area of a sphere surrounding it.

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars lee batt says:

    Iโ€™m pretty sure I got thoriated tungsten dust in my mouth once, the skin of my gums was blistering and peeling off for over a month. It really sucked. No more blue tipped electrodes in my tool box.

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Cloven Beast says:

    TIG welding rods are doped with thorium on purpose to strike a better arc

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Cloven Beast says:

    I tested the cheap tungsten ring that I put on my necklace with my Geiger counter just to make sure because it was going to be hanging over my heart

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Kev Pete says:

    I watch your videos every day and I donโ€™t know how youโ€™re this smart. Are you a machinist, scientist, engineer, mechanic, welder or outdoorsman

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Mark Doyle says:

    What language translation app are you using? It is pretty cool! Also, who is the manufacturer of the "Focus you f**k" camera? (Huge Smile). Thanks

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars FrontSideBus says:

    Isn't all metal contaminated to an extent after all the nuclear weapons testing in the 1950's? Which is why people are scrapping all the sunken warships (often illegally) from the first and second world wars for pre-nuclear steel?

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jason H says:

    Here I've been storing my thoriaded tungsten in my pillow fu*k me. No wonder I glow in the dark like a fluorescent bulb.

  15. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Philip Hooper says:

    I feel like if this guy was my Science teacher in school I would be working at Cern now.

  16. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Imageloading says:

    All steel made after first nuclear bombs in the 1940s are radioactive.
    Low background steel is pretty rare at this point

  17. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Ralph Watten says:

    This video disappeared about as fast as a Higgs Boson particle. Got close to that Japanese steel and gave up.

  18. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars ArcanusLibero says:

    Is it a particle, or is it a wave? When it's underwater does it get wet?

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