Vintage radioactive wrist watches - Is Radium really nasty?

[Bill (Smithville NJ)]

(01-18-2015 11:19 AM)jebem Wrote:  At last, the watch hands radiation emitting testing...
Considering the current safety standards, what would be the risk level for someone using that watch for a full year, accepting the monitored value of 39uSv/h?

The biggest risk with Radium Watches was to the girls that worked in the factory painting the watch faces. Just do a Google search for "Radium Girls" and you can read about the suffering done by these workers just so we could read the watch faces and hands in the dark.

Bill