Fiestaware: Uranium in the Cupboard

Prior to the discovery of nuclear fission in the late 1930s, Uranium was largely a byproduct of Silver and Radium extraction, used mainly as a cheap colouring agent for glass and ceramic glazes. And perhaps the most famous commercial product to use uranium glaze was Fiestaware, a colourful and highly popular line of dinnerware introduced in 1936 by the Homer Laughlin China Company of Newell, West Virginia and still produced to this day. Uranium Glass Video:    • Uranium Glass: From Bowls to Bombs   Tritium Lights Video:    • Tritium "Beta" Lights: the Cool Glow of Ra...   TIFO CANDU Video:    • CANDU: Canada’s Ingenious but Doomed Nucle...   TIFO Radithor Video:    • The Cure for the Living Dead   TIFO Radioactive Glow Video:    • Does Anything Radioactive Actually Glow Br...   TIFO Depleted Uranium Shell Video:    • Why on Earth is Depleted Uranium Used for ...   TIFO Radiation Exposure Video:    • How Much Radiation Can the Human Body Take...   0:00 Introduction 0:55 Early Uses of Uranium 1:28 Pitchblende 2:25 Discovery of Uranium 3:13 Uranium Yellowcake 5:43 The Radium Boom 7:35 Fiestaware Origins 8:44 Fiestaware Red-Orange 9:03 Other Uranium Glazes 10:42 Plant Tuscan China 11:26 Discovery of Fission 12:25 Depleted Uranium 13:08 Later Fiestaware History 15:00 Radioactive Hazard 16:37 Outro SOURCES https://www.orau.org/health-physics-m... https://www.orau.org/health-physics-m... https://www.orau.org/health-physics-m... https://fiestafactorydirect.com/pages... https://web.archive.org/web/201603031... https://web.archive.org/web/200302160... https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-... https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/fi... https://www.replacements.com/china-tu... https://gidodevyq.wordpress.com/2020/... https://www.thepotteries.org/mark/p/p... https://link.springer.com/article/10.... https://digitalfire.com/hazard/uraniu... https://niche-canada.org/2022/05/24/r... https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ml0829/ml082...