idiot cat

Picked up a nice vintage Metlox cup yesterday, and it came pre-seasoned. #hobbynuke

I have become infatuated with editing pictures of cats to be aliens. So here is my favorite chicken boy, @unicouniuni3.bsky.social

the alien

Taking an "X-ray" with UV. The liquid inside the bottle is Mercury.

A cool uranium glazed tile table at the local antique store. #hobbynuke

A Krypton-85 source from an old AN/PDR-27R radiac. Kr-85 is very useful for gamma spectroscopy calibration as like Cs-137 it has a single, medium-energy photon at 514 keV. #hobbynuke

The БИРИ-2 (BIRI-2), one of the smallest dosimeters ever made. #hobbynuke

The Eberline PIC-6A Portable Ion Chamber. With a range of 1 mR/h to 1000 R/h, it features a dry propane proportional tube as well as a logarithmic scale.

This meter was used to search for the debris of the Kosmos-954 satellite which spread radioactive particles over the Northern Canada.
#hobbynuke

The Eberline ASP-1, my absolute favorite survey meter. #hobbynuke

#hobbynuke Some radium antique compasses today. All readings are in uSv/h (мкЗв/ч)

@carlwillis.bsky.social The cat is NOT radioactive. #hobbynuke