Comment on A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years

Boozilla@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It would’ve been great if they used reasonable safety precautions in making them.

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  • yuriy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, unfortunately most of the danger fell on the (usually female) factory workers who painted the radium on. Fun fact, we do absolutely still use radioactive shit to make watches glow today, it’s just much less dangerous and sealed in tiny vials. Also it’s a gas that won’t eventually flake and turn into super fine particulate, like the radium paints of yore.

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• grayman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It was more a problem of licking the little brushes than wearing the teeny bit on the wrist.

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