Eating off uranium glass poses minimal risks, according to Paul W. Frame, a senior health physicist at Oak Ridge Associated Universities, and no special treatment is required when disposing of it.

Uranium glass is relatively affordable, which makes it a fun item for burgeoning collectors. Like vintage Pyrex , you’ll occasionally stumble across a super-rare piece, which drives the value up ...

Rather, Granger is a collector of rare, vintage uranium glass jewelry, which, even in the daylight, has a subtle glow. But the real party trick happens under a black light, ...

First isolated from pitchblende in 1789, uranium is a radioactive heavy metal, which means it decays over time, emitting alpha particles in the process, as it turns into various other elements ...

Uranium glass does not fade, so anyone who misses its brief, radiant spell in South Kensington will be able to find it in the US, undimmed, for decades to come.

Just don’t expect to get rich. ORAU estimates that about 4.16 million pieces of decorative uranium glass were produced in the U.S. between 1958 and 1978 alone.

Fact: Uranium glass was all the rage. By Eleanor Cummins. This is one of those facts that I can’t stop talking about. I’ve managed to shoehorn it into stories about Iranian nuclear weapons and ...

By 1974, Depression-era glass pieces were such popular collector's items, the National Depression Glass Association was established. Martha Stewart even has her own jadeite collection.

SPRINGFIELD – A small quantity of depleted uranium, used as a teaching aid by a local educator who inadvertently left it in a meeting room of a synagogue here, has been recovered and secured by ...

The paper, which was published in the January 23 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, explains that the uranium in nuclear fuel rods exists in a chemical form that’s usually insoluble.

Inside a blue cloth sack, swathed in paper towels, he found a small chunk of uranium. It was about 5 centimeters across, with “a white piece of paper wrapped around it, like a ransom note on a ...