The Most Radioactive Place in Malibu
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2022
- The most radioactive house sits on the beach in Malibu California right next to the Malibu Pier. The Adamson House was built in 1930 and is adorned with colorful tiles from that era. These tiles are what makes the house one of the most radioactive places you can find in the area.
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It would be interesting to see the medical histories of the pottery workers and installers through the decades.
Right? Ceramic glaze comes in a powder. its so easy to breath in or injest
As far as I know…it seems like the guys that were in charge of the glaze mixtures died from kidney failure…which can happen from ingesting uranium.
@@BobbyAeros I used to be a glaze mixer at a pottery shop. I don’t even want to know how much silica sand, cobalt, lithium, barium, titanium, vanadium, etc I breathed past an N95. Everything is 1000 mesh superfine 99% purity powder so it’s easily suspended in water. Spooked me and I left after a couple years.
Superfine 1000 mesh yellowcake uranium would be a nightmare to deal with. Once it’s in a properly formulated glossy glaze the colorant is fully encapsulated in glass. If the glaze is matte or textured the colorant is on the surface and can leech into food.
I worked @ the LLNL Lab out of school. I had to wear a "Dosimeter badge" we were told the story of a Lab Engineer who's badge read off the scale! They sent him for medical testing with negative results...After an extensive investigation...It tuned out when we went home he was putting the badge into a pottery bowl every evening with a high level of Uranium in its materials....🤣
Thank you for sharing. That's wild.
Drew,
I’m the Chief of Nuclear Cardiology in Fresno Calif. I really like your channel and what you are doing to inform the general public. Keep
It up!!
Maybe we can collaborate on something!
Take care.
That would be awesome. I would like to do a video about aspects of nuclear medicine. I recently had a family member get injected with some Tc-99m and wow they were crazy radioactive. As in a could tell when they walked into the house from just looking at my detector. Hit me up if you want. My email is listed in my channel in the about tab.
Bro I’m just waiting for the day this channel blows up it’s bound to happen. The quality and time that is put into these is insane 🔥
Thanks for the kind words. Always nice to hear people enjoy these videos.
@@RadioactiveDrew looks like that day is today :)
word just found you today =]
Its coming. I was just suggested a video of his a few days ago and immediately subscribed. Well thought out, well put together vids!!! I learned a lot!!
CZcams keeps recommending it to my homepage i just watched my first video of his about radioactive camera lens
I can't express enough how interesting this channel is an how much I learn from it! The time an work that goes into these videos is much appreciated my friend.
I’m glad you are enjoying the videos so much.
Forget the Red Ryder BB Gun. I want a Redeye B20 for Christmas!
Thanks for taking us along on a tour of that cool house. Great photography as always.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Thanks for showing us👌🏽🙏
This is so interesting.
I imagine what happened to the people producing these tiles ...
Much love 💕
Matthias 👋
Bravo again Drew. Loved the soundtrack. It had this subtle sense of undefinable urgency. Cinematography is first rate as usual.
Thanks.
The tiles are beautiful. I wonder if the tiles at Hearst Castle are radioactive?
This reminds me of my childhood. Living in the tropics, playing on the porch. Also with tiles.
Sounds like paradise, I never saw the ocean until teen
Stunning cinematography Drew. Well done!
Thanks.
Thanks ‼️great job 👍looking forward to your next one✌🏽
Thanks.
Excellent demonstration of the radioactive materials that we used in the past without people realizing it. I wonder what happened to the people who worked in the ceramic factory.
Just found your channel, very informative, thank you !
Fascinating place! Thanks for the vid!
Very cool, thanks for the info man, keep it coming.
your cinematography is so good i feel like I'm visiting the place with you! 😁continue your good work!
Thanks for the kind words.
FACTS!✨✨
Great video! Great production value. First time viewer.. now subscribed!
Thanks for subscribing.
Thank you Drew!
Glad you enjoyed it.
I love your videos. I have a friend that collects depression era Canary Glass and Fiesta ware. Their display case has UV lights that can be turned on making the pitchers, tea cups, gravy boats and saucers glow eerily. I've always been fascinated with this stuff. Keep up the great work. I have been sending all my friends over to enjoy your work.
Glad you've been liking the videos.
dude you are really interesting videos. and the production value is top notch.
Thanks.
Wow. That is a beautiful place, and I love all the Uranium based colored tile. Thanks.
Yeah that house was very beautiful. I'm hoping to go there one day and get to see the inside.
Gorgeous house!
thats so fluidly presented with the gimbal..selfie stick..voiceover and differrent movements..great work
Yeah the gimbal has been really helpful in getting some nicer shots.
is that cole's memories playing at 6:20?
Amazing video Drew.
Nice camera work. Very easy on the eyes.👍👍👍
Thanks.
Now I know why the Adams family was so weird... 😆
And I'm calmed now, because I collected a few uranium ores like the nice autunite and have some at home. I casted them in resin because of contamination. But yeah, they are radioactive. But when I see the radiation at that house, my little collection is 1/10.000 or less of it...
Thankyou for showing us this beautiful and verry intresting place .
I problem. Glad you enjoyed it.
Very interesting finding!
This is a great vid. Your earlier overhyped videos annoyed me but I am very glad I stayed subscribed.
This is a better quality doco than Discovery does.
Well thanks for sticking around. Glad you enjoyed the video.
Enjoyed this very well done video.
I’m glad. It’s a cool place to visit if you are ever in the area.
My biggest worry in old houses with yellow cake glazed tiles is whether they have been painted over with lead based paint.
The beta rays hitting you through the air cannot penetrate the dead skin layer. But trapping energetic beta electrons by the heavy lead atoms causes X-rays.
The dreaded Bremsstrahlung X-Ray radiation. Counterintuitive risk. But it's there.
You confound beta with alpha particles. Speaking of beta radiation, it can be attenuated by thick winter clothing, 1/2 inch wood or a 3/16 - 1/4 inch ABS plastic, although the attenuation level depends on quantic energy. Because of that, beta particles are used in radiotherapy when tumor is on skin or mucuous membranes to avoid excessive irradiation of healthy tissue. Thyroid cancer is another example: thyroid gland absorbs iodine so the addition of iodine-131 (a beta emitter) can deliver radioactive material into the affected organ.
Good points
Wow the place is well kept clean and condition.
Great video! What a beautiful place is this.
Thanks.
@@RadioactiveDrew, by the way, your videos like this help a lot to know more about the history of the US. The country is nothing without its history.
@@Serpiph I couldn't agree more. History is a very interesting subject.
Interestingly regular ceramic tiles are also mildly radioactive. In the area where I live my GQ GMC-600+ displays 30-50 CPM for normal background radiation and 100-125 CPM for ceramic tiles as well as for some stoneware plates. The highest rate I measured so far is from sodium-free salt substitute due to potassium-40 isotope naturally present: a thin wall polyethylene pouch containing a tablespoon of it spread evenly reaches 500 CPM which is about 1.5 microSv/h.
Love the tour of these historical places in California!💕Spanish colonial is one of my favorite styles of homes.
It is a pretty cool style.
Love the videos man just wondering how do you store your collection?
It depends on the source. If its uranium glazed tiles or plates I usually keep them in a display case in the house as the radiation is blocked pretty easily. The spicier stuff I keep in an old safe away from everyone. The safe kicks down the radiation a lot.
Wish you would have went by Simi Valley while in California. Santa Susana pass had a reactor spill in the 60s.
Camera work is on point
Thanks.
I've got a children's tea set made by the Medicine Hat Pottery in Alberta back in the 1920s. It has a dark orange uranium glaze that reads 22,000 cpm. It's a little tea pot, sugar bowl and creamer in the art deco style.
Beuatiful video.
Thanks. It’s a beautiful area.
Cool video, I’ve driven by that place lots of times but never stopped in, I definitely will next time now, any chance you might do a video about some of the uranium mines around California city or miracle hot springs over by Bodfish??
I plan on doing a video about the mines near that area...when I'm back down that way. Hopefully sometime this summer.
@@RadioactiveDrew roger that
*nice and calming music*
"Uranium."
"Look at how radioactive this is!" (plays soothing music)
Yeah man 100k by next month I bet good job top quality
The tile company's place burnt down in 1932 as the Great Depression kept going and the building industry was going down the tubes. If they had a lot of insurance on the facility and I was the insurance investigator, I would be very skeptical.
I had always heard that in the US during WWII, the production of the pretty uranium oxide glass ended because all of the Uranium had been mysteriously sucked out of the marketplace.
oh not just the marketplace; the U.S. government visited everyone who used uranium for coloring ceramics or glass and went "that's Critical Materials and there's a war on (no you can't ask 'critical how, exactly'). Hand it over."
Sounds about right.
This is California. Malibu burns down every few decades.
There are similar tiles at the Mission in San Juan Batista in California. Check those out. At the mission.
I’ll have to check those out.
@@RadioactiveDrew I also thought I saw those tiles in orange County at San Juan Capistrano, CA. I wonder if the famous Hearst Castle Mansion on the northern California coast, has thousands of glazed tiles, all around the house. That is also built in 1919 to 1927.
I went to a wedding that was held here. Definitely a cool place.
Radiactive Drew: your channel great!! QUESTION: if the radiation is contained in the tiles and safe unless you cut them, what is your Geiger counter picking up so aggressively???!😮
The Geiger counter is detecting alpha, beta and gamma radiation. But if you cut into those tiles and that uranium becomes a dust, then that dust is radioactive and is emitting those three different types of radiation. This can then be inhaled which wouldn’t be great.
Thank You for this incredibly informative historical video.
I have similar interests about historical locations around the world where the radiation was considered therapeutic. Romania. Canada. Brazilian Black Sand Beaches.
I look forward to future videos from your channel. MSM MD
Was just there yesterday
Did you get to go inside?
If I sat there I would not be worried about my butt, I would be worried about my balls.
Priorities.
I keep watching your videos and I would like to know the music used, would be nice if you would put this in the description.
I know, I need to add the music used in the description. This video used "Inside the Mind" and "Kings" by Ryan Taubert.
@@RadioactiveDrew Nice, thank you👍
If you take UV light with you on your uranium explorings the uranium and decay products should give a nice bright glow under uv light. :)
I find that it’s very particular elements with uranium or uranium in a certain state that will glow under UV light.
SO interesting! I wonder what the vat of glaze or the pottery factory reads. Like that apartment where they painted radium dials. Or the Will Rogers radium spa in southern US (AZ?) We were so dumb...
What? After Fukushima the Government said radiation was good for you!!!?
Not so much dumb as ignorant.
I got your meaning though.
There are still radium spars in eastern Europe.
It can have positive health effects.
When did they stop using radioactive components in these tiles? And is it something that is standardized around the world? In Mexico these tiles are called Talavera and I had my whole kitchen done with them.
Also on a site note of 3:20 .
In Germany it is illegal to just dispose of these tiles.
If you just put them in your truck and go to a dumping site they will arrest you before you even set foot out of your car.
German scraps yards and duping sites are by law required to have radiation monitoring on everything that enters and leaves.
Great video! I am learning more about radiation through the videos. My question is about the tiles. Are they not dangerous because exposure is limited because it is no longer a home, but a short visiting location where you simply are not exposed enough? Or is it not dangerous because like you said prior in the video, you are not cutting into the glaze or the tiles? That’s just me asking because I’m curious. - I guess I’m also asking if it would ever be safe to live in that house, assuming it wasn’t “safe” when the tiles were new? This is really interesting stuff…
Live here more than 3 months and your scrotum will be dragging the floor.
It would be safe to live in a house like this. You might run into some problems if your bed was made out of the hottest tiles in the bunch. The risk of cutting them is about uranium dust being kicked into the air. Our bodies will just pass the uranium on out but it can effect the kidneys if you are ingesting a lot of it.
Uranium was used for pigments for centuries before the interesting features of its nucleus were discovered.
When I was a child in the 1960’s, my parents had about six full place settings made of heavy and very attractive earthenware. They had bought the set from a roadside stand on an Indian reservation in Oklahoma and these were local handicrafts.
Sometime in the 1960’s an overnight guest suggested we have the glaze on a plate tested, which showed amazingly high levels of lead and uranium. Into the trash went the pretty cups and plates.
That’s sad they were thrown away.
@@RadioactiveDrew My recollection is that the lead content of the glaze would have considered hazardous regardless of the radioactivity issue.
What an amazing home and grounds. I guess that if an earthquake crumbled those tiles it would create a problem.
Not really. The uranium would still be locked up pretty good in the glaze.
New sub, SOLD!
From what I understand, said tiles emit alpha and beta particles, both of which are blocked by the skin (and as you said, harmless unless they're cut, which would expose you to particles you could ingest, which would do all of the harm internally).
They still cause skin cancer
Are those mahogany shades the red glazes that you mentioned were much more active than typical oranges?
Sometimes reds can be much more radioactive than oranges. I have a theory about these glazes. When they are put on the tile they are a much lighter yellow color, as least for uranium. But when the tile is baked in the kiln it darkens because it’s turning into uranium trioxide, which usually has a dark orange/ red color to it. The more uranium added to the glaze can intensify this color into the red spectrum as well.
@@RadioactiveDrew I never thought about that! I’ve gotta show you some of the ones I’ve found recently here in regional Australia. I can detect the gamma from over 3m away!
Usually these tiles give off a bunch of alpha and beta radiation. The beta radiation can be detected from pretty far away. They do give off some gammas but not a lot. Of course not all tiles are the same.
@@RadioactiveDrew I DM’d you some from my area on Instagram! Love to see what you think!
agreed!! No fear of radiation! We've lived with it and it will continue to improve our lives as we learn to live longer with it. Go to Home Depot and find some Mountain slate!! The gold ribboning has a gamma as well as a neutron signal. You may not be able to detect the neutrons your B20.
If the tiles are that radioactive, what does the site where they were manufactured look like? You need to look into that, Drew.
Oh I know. The site where they made these tiles has been built over. I think a restaurant is there now.
@@RadioactiveDrewprobably a “Hot “chicken place 😂
How is it legal to keep these tiles there if all it takes is some damage to spread the radioactive material?
I was waiting for you to say the company making the tile went out of business as everyone was dying, not that the building burned down. Or maybe that was done on purpose as they needed an excuse to shut down as they were starting to see the results from this radiation?
Where were all those tiles made? That spot must be piping hot...
They were made at a place that was down the beach from there…Malibu Potteries. It burnt down back in the early 1930’s I believe.
@@RadioactiveDrew The warehouse is now the large commercial building across from the beach and just south of Malibu Inn.
I went to grammar school with Mrs. Rindges' grand kids. The woman that originally owned it and Serra Retreat. She had the original land grant of 27 miles of Malibu and about 10 miles into the mountains. At one time she hired gun toting Horseback riders to keep the state from building PCH. Tough old lady.
Why is the type of radiation in this beautiful house not a health risk?
Because is isn’t very penetrating.
I wonder what everything looks like under black light with the green glow
I have to agree with comments in previous videos that "counts per minute" aren't meaningful. The beeping is great for drama, but it's like saying "my car goes 187." 187 what? The number may sound good but doesn't mean anything. Switching to standard units would be much more informative. Other than that, great videos!
I know it's not dangerous, but I still couldn't sit there without constantly thinking about it lol
Well weird question but have you ever checked how radioactive your Radeye is?
I have checked and it isn’t radioactive.
I would be interested to know why these glazes are radioactive ☢.
He states why around the 01:15 mark. It is the Uranium Oxide that was used to make the ceramic glaze.
I wish you would have mentioned, why they used radioactive glazes on the tiles.
Because Uranium has a variety of oxidation states, so you can get a variety of colors from it (black, green, yellow, and orange), and those colors are brilliant and effectively weather proof for centuries. Uranium salts will easily dissolve into glass or porcelain and thus work great as glazes.
@@tetrabromobisphenol I studied ceramics and never heard of uranium in slips and glazes. Guess it was past safe usage when I started in it in 1974. Thank you for that information.
@@spokanetomcat1 it's common in fiestaware
Lol you weren’t allowed to measure the cobalt-60 that before the clean up was just sitting there in corroding pipes. Making more isotopes 🤓 freely accessible
I’m curious what effect chlorinated water would have on dissolving uranium in the fountain water.
I would be surprised if that has any effect…but it could.
@@RadioactiveDrew Fiestaware came with warnings not to serve any slightly acidic foods on them, because things like tomato sauce would induce leeching of uranium into the food.
Friends of mine pranked me badly as a guest with the characteristic ruddy color Fiestaware, but it’s not the earlier radioactive type. I put a stack of paper plates over it and ate normally until they revealed the prank, much to their amusement, since they knew I was aware of the old uranium glaze from earlier discussions.
Were there any health risks for the people who were making the glaze and the pottery for this tile company? I recently discovered your channel and your videos are so well done and informative. Your drone shots are really nice.
Yeah the risks were really high. But at the time we did not know or understand the risks. Just like the women that used to paint the radium on clocks. they were actually instructed to use their mouths to straighten out the bristles on the paintbrushes. BUT also at the time they thought that radium was a heath tonic so the people that worked with it did not worry about exposure.
The people working with the glazes got a little bit of exposure but not a lot. These glazes were in liquid form so there wasn’t much risk from inhalation of uranium dust. I think the people mixing up the glazes probably had the biggest risk.
Does the house glow in the dark? What did the family do?
The house doesn’t glow in the dark. As far as I know the family lived there for a while with no problems.
Just discovered your channel today.
Beautiful camera work and editing.
I also love the music selection.
These videos could be running on a late night documentary channel.
Only thing i dislike is the way you confidently claim something is not dangerous and canot do harm.
The way you say it is way to generalized
Yes those tiles are ok to stay as long as they dont break and produce particles you can breathe in or consume on accident. However the radiation they emit is far from safe.
On short term exposure yes but not if you are exposed to the radiation for longer periods of time.
If people dont know they are radioactive and "for example" Take a nap or read a book several times a week on those tiles in the yard that can very quickly cause skin cancer.
While most of the workers producing these tiles where not exposed to much dust the radiation levels and long therm exposure was on a whole other level depending on the workspace they had.
I would be very surprised if you would get any form of cancer from the activities you listed with these tiles. Maybe if you were wearing one around your neck for years you might see some kind of effect.
Is that house a museum?
Kind of. It’s a state park.
How many people might have sat or laid bare skin on the edge of the pool for hours? Now I don't know if it was dangerous, but 1600x natural background radiation sounds high to me.
Prolonged exposure to that level of radiation wouldn't be a good thing. But if someone was just there for the day to hang out for an hour it wouldn't be that bad. Now if someone was doing that day in and day out for years and years I would imagine there would be some kind of health effect....maybe.
what would this look like under a black light?
It wouldn’t glow from the uranium. The uranium in the tiles look kind of black under a UV light.
Oh, I though maybe it would glow like uranium marbles - that would look amazing :) @@RadioactiveDrew
I had hoped you wpuld explain why there is radiation in ceramics
I'm pretty sure I said its because they used uranium in the glaze.
I want these tiles. Just in case people want to riot and smash tiles 🙃
Jesus Christ, your Geiger counter costs $2,000? I knew they were expensive, but damn!
How did the house occupants pass away, from Radiation!?
Isn't there a different effect of isotopes and half lives and alpha, beta and gamma?
In the tiles? Sorry your question wasn’t super clear.
Is it safe to visit?
Yes, totally safe...zero danger.
So why did they use radioactive material in their glazing?
For amazing colors that where unachievable with other means back in the day.
Uranium can oxidize into a variety of colors and was cheap
You should also read the CPM on a smoke detector (you may have I haven't caught up with all of your videos yet)... or the thorium ceramic core of a microwave oven. Or a plasma lamp.
I don't think they use thorium in magnetrons anymore except for a small amount in the filament. TR tubes used in radar often contain nickel-63, and sometimes radium.
I’m constantly surprised your channel is up there with Tom Scott and the likes. Soon brother. The one good side of the conflict nuclear fears will hopefully be the recognition of your channel.
Thanks...yeah radiation related stuff is on peoples' mind much more since this war started. I hope people are learning something from this channel.
@@RadioactiveDrew I truly have. It was a huge knowledge gap i needed to correct. I grew up just after the Cold War and on propaganda essentially. All nuclear bad scary stay away. I actually worked at Rancho Seco up north hear and STILL had no true understanding. Probably especially due to the Rancho Seco and Three Mile Island connection. Either way, I really appreciate the knowledge share and the persistence despite the nature of the topic.
I’m not sure I would want to lay on them for long periods of time or anything
Does anybody know what the people who live there died of very curious
As far as I know natural causes.
A lot of girls died in the 20s 30s and 40s when they were licking the paint brushes for the clocks they were exposed to radium, throat cancer kidney cancer
Oh it was way way worse than that. When you ingest radium your body thinks it’s calcium. So your bones absorb the radium making them radioactive destroying them from the inside.
Osteonecrosis of the jaw and teeth
Radiophile dream house😂
Nary a mention as to WHY the tiles are radioactive
Really, pretty sure I said it’s because of uranium used in the glaze.
People tell me electric cars are the future but the pit mines used to mine lithium look as bad as coal strip mining.
Yet it has nothing to do with this video.
What happen to workers & owners??
The only people that seemed to have any ill health effects were the people that mixed up the glazes using the raw pigments. I’ve read some history of these places and a surprising number of the head glazers died from kidney failure. Uranium will cause a lot of stress to the kidneys if ingested over long periods of time.
So did the workers cutting the edges of the tiles to fit ingest dangerous amounts of radiation?
The uranium / lead poisoning was probably the quicker thing affecting their health.
But sure it's not health to breathe in radioactive dust.
Picture is worth a thousand words. So you did a very intense description of why this house is not a concern. This information will resonate with the audience because seeing is believing.
Then when you said that sitting on the l ledge your butt would get more radioactivity than the rest of you, This verse from the 1980s pop rock song came to mind. She's radioactive. I don't know why Jerry Lee Lewis song did not come to mind. Keeping it rated G you can fill in the blank.🤣🤣🤣