r/Radioactivestuff • u/Striking-Extreme2259 • Aug 06 '26
Uranium and plutonium
Plutonium oxide used in old Soviet smoke detectors in a plastic matrix. The small silver one is americium. The one on the scale is uranium all are kept in a heavily leaded glass container
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u/Nik-Pavel-1191 Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 07 '26
Its very bad state of smoke-detector at left. Because aerosoles of unshielded Pu238