Does My Homemade Radiation Shielding Work?

I built a nuclear radiation-proof container using several radiation shielding materials to store my most radioactive element samples; some uranium glazed fiestaware pottery and a thorium oxide gas mantle. Will it be enough to block all the radiation ?
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[@stephanieburgess5190]

This is pretty cool!

[@animeindo4634]

Nice. And be carefull

[@yaykruser]

I dont think thats enough shielding.
I have my small uranium ore behing a 85mm steel plate and there is still 10% of the radiation coming through...

[@Curiosity_lab]

Uranium emits alpha and beta radiation so It should be stopped by stopped by a few mm of steel or lead

[@yaykruser]

@@Curiosity_lab youd think, but natural uranium is in equilibrium with its decay products, some of them rwach 2500kev, where the half value layer islike 25mm of lead.
Currently soring it in a 40mm lead pig and I still get 2microsievert.

[@Curiosity_lab]

Wow your sample must be a lot more active than mine. I get around 8 microsieverts/h with no shielding and background with it.

[@yaykruser]

@@Curiosity_lab I get 118 microsieverts if I hold my counter at it. Its a 1cm2 sample from where they mined the stuff for the first atomic bomb, so pretty much pure UO2.
Put it in a small acryllic case, that gets it down to 28 microsieverts.
Currently building a new lead pig with 60mm wall thickness but at that point it becomes unpractical as it already weights over 20kg vithout the lid...
Still curious if the counter can still pick it up in there...

[@ludekspurny5553]

@@yaykruserdon’t be so scared by radioactivity. Don’t store it where you live and sleep and you may omit this heavy shielding.