From which  material should a box for storing radioactive substances be made?
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Lead--- hey i remember that and its been around 6 years since i left school :-)
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You could make a cloud chamber. It's a chamber that's saturated with alcohol vapor so when a cosmic ray or radioactive particle enters the chamber it leaves a trail of mist like when a plane leaves a vapor trail. It does use dry ice and isopropyl alcohol though. It's kind of complicated but would be worth it in the end.
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They ship in cardboard boxes to keep it safe...
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In Japan a few years ago the workers at one facility were carrying radioactive solutions in buckets from one place to another where they put so much of it that it started having nuclear reactions from reaching a critical amount.  This was amazing news, but it happens that the people doing mundane, dirty, or high exposure work often know little and are only following or misfollowing instructions of more knowledgeable scientists who are not always there to prevent mistakes.\n\nAlso, one time in the USA, out west, a man was working on a reactor and, they say, everyone had been told not to remove a certain vital control rod.  But he did, and instantly the reactor exploded, releasing radioactive contaminants inside the containment.  The mans body was found on the ceiling impaled by the control rod.\n\nThat sounds like a made up story, I know, but I have heard it told about three times from VERY reputable and different sources.\n\nAnother time was during the testing of fissionable materials in the laboratory at Los Alamos where the first atom bombs were developed.\n\nOne scientist was investigating critical mass by bringing two hemispheres or pieces of fissionable materials slowly closer to each other on some kind of track.  He got them too close and did not get them apart fast enough.  The radiation exposure was so intense he died shortly after that, also I believe one other person who was in the room.
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You are wrong NATURAL lead is a mixture of four stable isotopes (read NON-radioactive): 204Pb, 206Pb, 207Pb, and 208Pb . These four isotopes are the end products of each of the three series of naturally occurring radioactive elements: 206Pb for the uranium series, 207Pb for the actinium series, and 208Pb for the thorium series. Twenty seven OTHER isotopes of lead, all of which are radioactive, are recognized.\n\nLead is used as shielding because of its density. Remember that there is nothing magic about lead. Wood, air or styrofoam for that matter would work as well, but because of the density differences the same amount of shielding provided by 1" of lead might take 30" of wood or 50" of styrofoam
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Maybe Air packaging it will keep it from melting.
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put all the parts in a trash bag and fill a shipping box in strofoam packing peanuts put the computer in the box surrounded by peanuts and it should make it there safely or if you are really concerned double box it with 1 inch styrofoam to protect the inner box. the stuff they sell at a home improvment store that comes in 4 X 8 sheets
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You could keep it in a moisture proof cedar chest.\n\nHowever, if it has sentimental value, I would use it.  Saving things for a special occasion that never comes is sad.\n\nLet it make some memories for you too.  Keeping it in a box will not do that.  And, you can check completed auctions on EBay for current values.
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http://www.itt.edu/staff/boyter/links/index.html\n\nLook under chemistry equipment.  There are some chemicals you will not be able to get.  Posting what you are looking for would help.
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hard candy\ngift warp\ntape, scotch and the wide one for sealing cartons 4 ups as well as grey tape and electrical tape\nbatteries\nplastic containers\ndish liquid\ncleanser\nbleach\nwall calendars\nThrow away tools like paint brushes, box cutters, sand paper, paint roller sleeves\noh and scented & regular candles\ngreeting cards\npens \nenvelopes
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Suppose you are collecting Uranium 238, because you want to build a better bomb.  If you were stupid enough to pile it in one place, eventually you would have enough to start a self-sustaining reaction and it would melt down.\n\nThe amount required to maintain a self-sustaining reaction is called "critical mass".\n\nFission is when you split heavy atoms, uranium or plutonium, to make lighter atoms.\n\nFusion is when you combine very light atoms, deuterium I believe, to make something heaver, like helium.  It takes a lot of evergy to get a fusion reaction going.
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You will find such a container in a big box shaped concrete structure called a store.  As you go down several layered rows, you will find a wood or sometimes metal thing called a cd rack.  You will then give me 10 points and your cds will be happy
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<grin>\nThe wonderful thing about standards is that there so many to choose from.</grin>\n\nAre you thinking plastic or metal/glass?\nWhat country are you thinking of?\n\nDid not find anything specific but did find some leads you may want to follow up.\n\n"The Wiley Encyclopedia of Packaging Technology", Second Edition, Brody & Marsh, 1997. \n"The Handbook of Packaging Engineering", Third Edition, Hanlon, 1997.
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Welding rods are usually sold in air tight containers. Once they are open, the coating will tend to absorb moisture. Any procedure that will exclude atomspheric moisture is okay. \n\nI have seen jobs where they used an old refrigerator with a couple of 100 watts light bulbs inside to maintain some warmth.
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An iron box. The magnetic field lines are trapped in the iron and the inside is shielded  of magnetism.\n\nTh
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It's a lie, it's like cell phones causing gas stations to blow up. I work for a package delievery service and we ship optic mice, cell phones and what not all the time, and if something edmits radioactivity it's required to be labeled, even if it doesn't emit the radiation when it's turned off. the only thing you have in ur home that is slightly radioactive is ur smoke detectors.which are class 1, meaning as long as u dont eat them you'll be fine
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Nuclear waste or any radiological material deteriorates in its radioactive properties at a set rate determined by spin of rates of the neutrons that orbit the nucelus of the specific molecule in question. This rate is know as a half life or the time it takes for half the neutrons to spin off. This can only be accelarated by forecfully adding electrons to the molecules of the material, which is another radiological procedure that requires large amounts of electricity.  A very expensive process.  Chemicals have virtualy no effect toward accelarating half rates.