Hello does anybody have any suggestions for projects that have radioactivity in them. Something like small fusion reactors, tritium clocks ect.
Post any suggestion you have!
What materials do you have access to? What country are you in?
Asking for friend. Sweden, idk let’s say anything for now and I’ll filter myself.
This guy blazed a trail
radiation is not really something suited for backyard project…
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Only background radiation monitoring (for whatever reason one would do that).
Asked wife (PhD Partical Physics) Said most of the lab type stuff is pretty boring.
A small safe fusion reactor would be cool. Till Big Oil makes you dissapear…
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Best bang for the buck, in my humble… a cloud chamber! It lets you “see” nuclear radiation in action, at least, the bigger particles.
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That is actually a good idea.
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My favorite are when the odd cosmic ray hits the chamber and leaves a much longer trail. That is evidence they pack a lot more energy than any alpha or beta decay from a terrestrial source.
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radiation isn’t generally something appropriate for patio venture…
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u could take xray pictures of dead animals food.
fission or fusion will get u in trouble in virtually any country afaik
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Yeah, even if you are a Boy Scout
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if you can get your hands on enough smoke detectors you could make a reactor
Google “Gieger Counter fun”
A ton of stuff comes up
Here’s an idea: a true random number generator based on radioactive decay. You could start by using a smoke detector and a Geiger counter or maybe a scintillator.
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Re-heating dinner… 
Hooking a geiger-mueller tube to an arduino could do that, the software and electronics are a project though.
There’s enough random background rads to do this without messing with the sample inside a smoke detector. Although tiny, Americium is one of the hottest radiation sources commonly available. Being tiny also makes it dangerous, since it’s easy to misplace when removed from the detector.