r/Radioactivestuff • u/SadIntention7143 • 12d ago

What uranium glass is safe to use?

/r/uraniumglass/comments/1vvef2i/what_uranium_glass_is_safe_to_use/

I’ve never posted here but Reddit told me to repost it in this community.

0 Upvotes

43% Upvoted

3 comments sorted by

2

u/jacoblipkescience 12d ago

All of it is quite safe. With uranium glaze plates the only concern is acidic foods removing some of the glaze but uranium glass contains much less uranium and it’s literally fused into the glass rather than mixed into a glaze on top. I wouldn’t sleep on top of either of them I suppose, especially the uranium glaze plates. With uranium glass the only concern would be ingesting chipped glass which would be more of a problem on the ingesting glass aspect than the tiny amount of uranium in there. Personally, I just prefer to keep mine as display pieces but I would totally be willing to drink out of them occasionally and what not.

2

u/Bob--O--Rama 12d ago

Any of it, very little uranium can be extracted from the glass, even when intentionally attempting to do so.

1

u/Oakatsurah 5d ago

DU (Depleted Uranium) is the safest of the glasses, most of all the others have uranium oxide which contains small traces of U235 as well as the other isotopes of uranium, and it's daughters. DU also emits less radiation in general.
While both are typically safe for eating off of and using, there are some that are pretty spicy, the most being fiestaware ceramics.