>Where can Radium Chloride be purchased from?
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>Dave.
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It requires a license. Depending upon where you live, the license is either
issued by the State Health Department or the NRC (National Regulatory
Commission). The rules have changed in this country greatly since the 1930's
when radium chloride was used in luminous paints as well as medicinal uses.
Today, it is highly controlled and very hard to get ahold of. One of the
conditions of the license is that you provide financial assurance or a bond
for the disposal costs involved relative to your possession of the material.
Radium is also a Radon generator. The first daughter product is radon which
is a gas and easily inhaled. With a 1600 year half-life, your body burden
with radium is very high. That is, you will keep it with you for a very long
time. I am not saying that radium can not be handled safely, just that the
potential for harm is substantial. I reccomend further investigation into
the claims before anyone goes out and tries to get radium.
A further factor is the costs involved. Radium is very expensive in any
quantity. It takes some 40 tons of uranium ore to yield only one gram of
pure radium metal. Radium chloride is much cheaper to produce but still
costs about $30,000 per gram.
I can provide a great many more details, if it is of value. I just wanted to
post the warning before anyone goes and hurts themselves. My experience and
life work has been with the conversion of radioactive decay to electricity.
This is something that I know-handling of radioactive materials.
Paul Brown