Lame link post

I’m still tied up with the annual calibration on one of our accelerators, but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. In the meantime, here are a few updates on the Molybdenum-99 shortage. The American College of Radiology has posted an article from Reuters describing some of the ways that US [...]

Paul, did you build an atomic bomb?

Only a little one. Boing Boing had this quite a while ago, but I just ran across it courtesy of Dubious Quality. The A.C. Gilbert company sold educational science sets back in the 50′s, and one of their less successful offerings was the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab sold from 1950-51.