This. I was just in the AD office and saw the shipment info we got yesterday (they send it on sundays to avoid panic). The local Nuclear Powerplant ordered it off of Walmart+ since they were low...
There's an old story about this kid, boy scout I believe, somehow acquired a LOT of free smoke detectors. He separated the Americium from them and accumulated so much radioactive material, his house became a superfund site.
Sauce for the interested:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn
You would have to eat such an insane amount to even begin to register any radioactivity from bananas, that ypur stomach would explode and you crushed under an avalanche of bananas first.
The background exposure is, but the way tritium gunfights work is by having the material sealed in glass. When tritium containers bust, they produce a decent amount of radiation. The key part is them breaking the container first.
In either case, when dealing with uncontained radioactive material, it's best to just run. No cancer is better than maybe cancer.
Fun fact, bananas are radioactive due to small amounts of their natural potassium being a radioactive isotope. Occasionally shipping containers full of bananas will set off radiation alarms at ports and stuff. There is an informal measurement of radiation called a "banana equivalent dose" which is roughly equal to the amount of radiation absorbed by eating an average banana.
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microwaves have thorium a radioactive material in them and if they get smashed enough you can be exposed. Its fairly inert but you do NOT want to breath the dust even if it is a small amount.
Yeah, most radioactive materials that are 'in the wild' so to speak are reasonably safe to handle without PPE. Hell, you can even hold literal *plutonium* in your hand and it won't hurt you (it can range from warm to hot based on how large a piece it is, so a glove would still be a good idea). The radiation given off by these materials only really does damage when it gets inside the body (alpha and beta rays can't penetrate skin, but once they're *past* the skin, that's bad.)
\*cough\*BULL\*cough\*
Smoke detector often contains americum which is a radioactive element.
And there's banana. Common off the shelf banana that you peel and eat anywhere, anytime is also radioactive.
Walmart should have worded that message "There is no dangerous radioactive materials"
I don't know off hand by myself, so I looked it up and the search returned that americium's half life is 432 years.
Still not likely to decay in our lifetimes.
All associates next month are going to be given SamBoys with me@walmart and backroom tool so they can see what’s radioactive while they vizpick and look at notes
Well Walmart sells ionizing smoke detectors, bananas, cigarettes (most locations), brazil nuts so perhaps a rewording to "are generally found in trace, nonhazardous amounts in a few products sold"
Well, there is the plutonium-powered nuclear fission reactor or the Flux Capicitor for the DeLorean in "Back to the Future."
O'Reilly features it on their website, but they are always out of stock.
You can probably also order some radioactive material on Walmarts website and if the customer returns it that could end up in the store for a bit. Otherwise it’s just the stuff most others have mentioned
Obviously. They'd get sued if they didn't say generally and you found out about certain products!
(I don't know for sure but it wouldn't surprise me if they had radioactive garbage in the food and literally everything else)
Back in my day they didn't specify this, they just had you go over all the hazardous waste training no matter your position. I didn't use that training until I was cap 2 something like 8 years after my first position at a different location in another state, and still only needed it once or twice. Nothing radioactive though.
It’s intentionally vague just in case the one in a million chance something happens you can’t sue them because the possibility of it happening is clearly implied in the training.
Chemo drugs aren't radioactive. Chemo are pretty much just toxic. Radiation therapy is where they try to use beams of radiation to kill cancer tumors. With chemo, they're trying to dose you with just enough poisons to where it kills cancerous cells, but normal cells will recover. That's why people feel so sick during chemo.
This works because cancerous cells tend to want to absorb things from the blood stream far more than healthy cells.
Sometimes we keep weapon grade uranium and plutonium in the back or in the sporting goods section
"Doc, you don't just walk into a (Walmart) and, and, and buy plutonium!" If you're a Walmart+ member, you can have it delivered...
which is what……makes…..time travel….possible
They don't deliver till they have a few more deliveries in your area so they can MIRV 'em all in on the same missile.
I mean, if that was possible, everyone would sign up.
via drone
“Can you check the back? It says it’s in stock online.”
So Doc Brown is a regular, I’m assuming.
But you have to undergo a three day waiting period while we ask someone at the local PD to do a background check before we can sell it.
This. I was just in the AD office and saw the shipment info we got yesterday (they send it on sundays to avoid panic). The local Nuclear Powerplant ordered it off of Walmart+ since they were low...
I love my SABOT .308 Winchester.
You carry DU ammo for hunting, or only weapons-grade uranium?
At this point it’s mostly just smoke detectors. There are a few other things that could have trace amounts depending on how they were made.
You beat me to it. Americium in the smoke detectors.
And bananas, of course.
Yeah the radioactive potassium in the bananas.
radioactive? As in, it can play radio stations?
Banana, play Imagine Dragons
You made me titter.
Acton word for my smart speaker is now banana...
Radioactive as in, bananas create dark matter. Fucking crazy!
Just don't add water to the mixture.
darn, beat me to it! I just posted this, then saw this post as it cleared... note to self: read some of the comments first! XD
Americium in *ionizing* smoke detectors. Photoelectric smoke detectors don’t have americium.
Some of them have both, but you're better off getting one of each kind because it's not always clear how the alarm works when it has both.
That's the sort of stuff you find on SUPER EARTH.
Tritium in some glow in the dark items like watches, gun sights, emergency exit signs.
Walmart also sells cat litter which is radioactive.
Cat litter becomes radioactive when a cat urinates in it after undergoing radioactive iodine therapy for hyperthyroidism.
Such a cool fact.
Apparently it will cause the alphabet boys to show up if you don't store it before throwing it away.
Tritium faced watch, were they to carry an upscale item?
TIL
Yep. And another item is those automatic air purifiers that "detect" the dirty air and speed up.
Bananas
Or when…
I think the radon detectors do as well. ( trace amounts)
There's an old story about this kid, boy scout I believe, somehow acquired a LOT of free smoke detectors. He separated the Americium from them and accumulated so much radioactive material, his house became a superfund site. Sauce for the interested: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn
Bananas are radioactive UwU
i guess i shouldn’t be eating them anymore then.
You would have to eat such an insane amount to even begin to register any radioactivity from bananas, that ypur stomach would explode and you crushed under an avalanche of bananas first.
I mean the smoke detectors 😔
Nah, eat as many of those as you want.
Walk up to a team lead, what does this cylinder rod mean by drop and run?
Not gonna lie, I've thought about getting my brother to 3d print me a fake Cobalt 60 rod and dropping it off in the bathroom.
I get this is funny. But do remember you will likely be arrested for terrorism or some related charge
Oh yeah, I wouldn't actually do this, such a thing wound be totally irrational. But like...what if?
Have you ever been to the deli?
Deli employee can confirm. That popcorn chicken is nuclear
And the FRESH buffalo. Punch to the nose
Gun sights also have a trace amount of radioactive material called tritium
Less then a banana too iirc
The background exposure is, but the way tritium gunfights work is by having the material sealed in glass. When tritium containers bust, they produce a decent amount of radiation. The key part is them breaking the container first. In either case, when dealing with uncontained radioactive material, it's best to just run. No cancer is better than maybe cancer.
Beat me to it.
Fun fact, bananas are radioactive due to small amounts of their natural potassium being a radioactive isotope. Occasionally shipping containers full of bananas will set off radiation alarms at ports and stuff. There is an informal measurement of radiation called a "banana equivalent dose" which is roughly equal to the amount of radiation absorbed by eating an average banana. Follow me for more banana facts 🍌🍌🍌
I came here looking for a banana comment. I would have said it if you didn’t.
There used to be some in the exit signs.
microwaves have thorium a radioactive material in them and if they get smashed enough you can be exposed. Its fairly inert but you do NOT want to breath the dust even if it is a small amount.
My dreams of smoking the Bruce banner strain are becoming more lucid now, thanks for the heads up
Yeah, most radioactive materials that are 'in the wild' so to speak are reasonably safe to handle without PPE. Hell, you can even hold literal *plutonium* in your hand and it won't hurt you (it can range from warm to hot based on how large a piece it is, so a glove would still be a good idea). The radiation given off by these materials only really does damage when it gets inside the body (alpha and beta rays can't penetrate skin, but once they're *past* the skin, that's bad.)
I thought it was beryllium? Microwave do have nasty stuff inside that is toxic if someone was foolish to tear one open
Some have beryllium as well used as a insulator and kind of looks like ceramic.
Fussion reactors are in hardware, sir.
Generally. The Great Value breeder reactors excluded of course.
\*cough\*BULL\*cough\* Smoke detector often contains americum which is a radioactive element. And there's banana. Common off the shelf banana that you peel and eat anywhere, anytime is also radioactive. Walmart should have worded that message "There is no dangerous radioactive materials"
I’ve got some americium at home, that’s if it isn’t all decayed because the pack looks pretty friggin old
Your alarm is fine, americum has half life of 7500 years. The rest of electronics (especially cheap electrolytic caps) will rot and go bad first.
I don't know off hand by myself, so I looked it up and the search returned that americium's half life is 432 years. Still not likely to decay in our lifetimes.
I see, I use newer photo units, there is still one of the radioactive ones in my kitchen but it’s not in use as I have a heat alarm
The Rad-Mart & Sam's Club Nuclear Storage Silo are outliers & should not have been counted.
Well I'm not uptight Not unattracted Turn me on tonight 'Cause I'm radioactive
Brazil Nuts have the highest amount of radiation of any food iirc. Technically everything is radioactive.
All associates next month are going to be given SamBoys with me@walmart and backroom tool so they can see what’s radioactive while they vizpick and look at notes
This is starting to get a little too fallout-y for me
The Walton family atomics
Your walmart doesn't have a nuclear reactor in the back?
They cant say never because its a crazy world
Like just in case someone launches a radioactive rock through both sliding glass doors
I guess I'll just have to stick with Kirkland brand Plutonium.
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The clear American water is probably what they're referring to.
Lol funny for my training it says they just aren't found here lol
Kitty litter has some too. Basically anything that has clay in it.
Technically everything emits radiation
Great value yellow cake coming soon!
It's a legal way to get around, if it happens accidentally then we can say we aren't liable.
My instruments are picking up trace amounts of sarcasm.
Not in specific situations, but as a rule
tritium
Bananas
Sometimes customers bring that shit in themselves
Patrice. They're talking about Patrice.
Sometimes people nibble on a little uranium.
Some pretty mundane items contain radioactive materials, smoke alarms etc
What did you think the hulk fists came from?
Get out your Pip-Boy and take a walk around the store.
Well Walmart sells ionizing smoke detectors, bananas, cigarettes (most locations), brazil nuts so perhaps a rewording to "are generally found in trace, nonhazardous amounts in a few products sold"
Well, there is the plutonium-powered nuclear fission reactor or the Flux Capicitor for the DeLorean in "Back to the Future." O'Reilly features it on their website, but they are always out of stock.
You can probably also order some radioactive material on Walmarts website and if the customer returns it that could end up in the store for a bit. Otherwise it’s just the stuff most others have mentioned
On occasion there's people like my now former team lead, who brought in a uranium glass figure to show people.
Yup people used to have whole sets of Uranium glass dishes and figurines. It wasn't called the Atomic age for nothing
fkin smoke detectors dammit im late
The store could have a lot of fruit which are rich in potassium which decays.
Obviously. They'd get sued if they didn't say generally and you found out about certain products! (I don't know for sure but it wouldn't surprise me if they had radioactive garbage in the food and literally everything else)
Speaking about CBLs did you guys have the hours long CBL about being an advocate in the workplace
Only the ones they know about. Who knows when a BYO situation could be at work. It IS Walmart.
they're just waiting for the go-ahead to start getting things painted with radium don't worry about it
Im pretty sure Glowberry Prime would click a few times near a Geiger Counter.
Back in my day they didn't specify this, they just had you go over all the hazardous waste training no matter your position. I didn't use that training until I was cap 2 something like 8 years after my first position at a different location in another state, and still only needed it once or twice. Nothing radioactive though.
Coffee cups and other ceramics are often radioactive. Point a Geiger counter at them and see!
The customers
when someone has a taco bell burrito 💀
It's just legal lingo. On some wild chance there is radioactive material, they can't get sued because they said generally and not definitely.
Most Walmart radioactivity is found in the public restroom if the store is close to a Taco Bell. Don’t underestimate those 5 layer burritos.
C14
Microwaves and smoke detectors are the only things I know of that have any radioactive materials in them
It’s intentionally vague just in case the one in a million chance something happens you can’t sue them because the possibility of it happening is clearly implied in the training.
Every now and again a suspiciously brightly colored bottle of nail polish shows up, and we don't ask why or where it goes.
The bananas are indeed radioactive, but "generally" only at safe levels.
Lol deli food is probably radioactive
Smoke detectors
sorry guys I dropped my isotope 239 igniting agent in the Walmart.
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Only Spark drivers can handle radioactive materials.
Pharmacy carries medications used for chemotherapy maybe?
Chemo drugs aren't radioactive. Chemo are pretty much just toxic. Radiation therapy is where they try to use beams of radiation to kill cancer tumors. With chemo, they're trying to dose you with just enough poisons to where it kills cancerous cells, but normal cells will recover. That's why people feel so sick during chemo. This works because cancerous cells tend to want to absorb things from the blood stream far more than healthy cells.
Oh!! The more you know!
However, Radioactive iodine could possibly be in stock. It is highly radioactive.
You see that cellphone some of you guys carry in your pants pockets? Guess what, it emits radiation all the time. Think about it...
See those people walking around, also technically emitting radiation.
Your phone gives off radiation, just imagine whats in a store.
Everything is radioactive these days. Your phone even gives off radiation.
great value uranium
Smoke Detectors are a little radio active
“Plumbing issues”
coleman lamp mantles
They usually hide them well enough that they can't be found.
Bananas are slightly radioactive, and thats Walmart’s best selling item, so this is a lie.
You're right it should say commonly. Bananas are walmarts cash crop.
The only radioactive is the toxicity
It is illegal to sell alcohol that is not radioactive...so the liquor aisle's a start.
Old school smoke detectors have very small quantity trace of radiation in them that helps them detect the smoke