Transcript (en)

In this are six sixty white caffeine pellets. In this one is uranium oxide, U-308. You can't buy it for love nor money. The state of Washington sent two of their Gestapo agents over to my home to confiscate my uranium samples on the 17th of December last year. Got a challenge. I'd like to have somebody in the room volunteer to take all of this bottle or all of this bottle. The only thing that I'll tell you is that one of them won't hurt you and the other one will kill you. Do you want the white stuff or the black stuff? White stuff? You do. There's enough in there to kill four men your size. the government says we got to ban this material it radioactive let check it in the bottom of the bottle Not very radioactive Let take the cap off. Oh, goodness. Very radioactive. This instrument will only count gamma, energy. It's just energy. Lights coming from those lights, only getting lots of infrared from the lights as well as ultraviolet. Energy response, and it's very carefully damp to only discriminate it so it only gets the energy that comes from this. I don't want it to respond to a light, just to this. It costs me $1,000 to get an instrument that will just respond to this and not to that. This is radioactive by any definition. radioactive material giving off radiation that is read by an instrument like this. The daughter of this radon cannot be read on this instrument because it gives off alpha particles An alpha particle is a dipositive particle that comes from the nucleus It has two protons and two neutrons, therefore an atomic weight of four, and it's minus two electrons. And if you grab it with a high ionization potential counter, it'll count. But if it travels two inches in air or through a piece of paper, it picks up two electrons, two beta particles, if you will, and becomes helium gas, and it won't count on an ionization chamber. Did you know that this thing right here is giving off helium gas? Alpha comes from uranium. Okay, radioactive material. You pour it out in the hand, and that's radioactive contamination. Is it radioactive? Yeah, it is. Very radioactive. Now decontamination is nothing but scooping it back up and putting it into the bottle I just now decontaminated my hand No I didn do such a good job Not good at all. Is it still radioactive? Yeah, that's called residual radioactivity. Now, under the decontamination rules of the government, when you decontaminate somebody like this that's that contaminated, and this is certainly a reportable incident under current DOE regulations, when you're decontaminating, it has to go down a controlled drain so that you don't disperse radioactivity. Do I qualify as a controlled drain? That material that I just ate is not soluble in body fluids. It's been this.