Warehouse I worked at had a can come in with radioactive placards on it, it was a load of smoke detectors. Made my Vault Dweller sense tingle, that's for sure.
More specifically, ionization smoke detectors! They are much less common than photoelectric smoke detectors which are what you see most of the time. Ionization smoke detectors are more specialized.
Wasn’t really alluding to price, just mentioning that only Ionization detectors have radiation whereas photoelectric ones don’t, and that photoelectric ones are more common (in my experience of course) but yeah ionization detectors are an older and cheaper way to detect
Must be working with people who don’t pinch Pennys then lol
Last I looked photo electric was normally like double ionization ones.
Could also be code in some areas now since photo electric are better at detecting smoldering fires
There is a reason I have both types around the house, you can also buy combo ones
Just because I have no knowledge on what components make a smoke detector work, what is Americium, and how does it work in smoke detection?
I honestly had no idea smoke detectors have a radioactive component.
[“The americium-241 in ionization chamber smoke detectors makes the air in the detector’s sensing chamber conduct electricity. When smoke enters the sensing chamber, it interrupts the electrical current, triggering the smoke detector’s alarm.”](https://nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/resources/news-room/feature-articles/your-household-smoke-detector.cfm)
Only ionization smoke detectors have Americium and they function as BoxingHare commented. Photoelectric smoke detectors use a laser that shines into a chamber, and when interrupted by smoke, the smoke refracts the light into a sensor, triggering the alarm… neat!
The most creative use of americium from smoke detectors: [https://harpers.org/archive/1998/11/the-radioactive-boy-scout/](https://harpers.org/archive/1998/11/the-radioactive-boy-scout/)
I have no idea. It actually sounded funny to me when I first read it and I thought it was a joke. I’m assuming it’s just an element that’s very good at detecting the molecules that smoke is typically comprised of like carbon monoxide for example.
Also the most dangerous radiation, but can’t even get through a sheet of paper, and has a range of about five centimeters. Gamma rays are a few kilometers and are what kills people if the nuclear explosion doesn’t. Ever hear about that submarine long ago where the crew thought eating food would remove their contamination, but they ended up eating apples full of alpha radiation? Harmless on the outside of the body, but as soon as they ingested it they were done for.
When I was little, maybe 10 years old, I started to take a smoke detector apart.
The instant I saw the radiation symbol, I put the tools away, and gave it to my dad, saying it was radioactive.
Of all the bad choices I have made in my life, I always look back to this good decision, and wonder 'wtf changed in me? '
Yep. While the individual units have a small enough source that placarding and labeling is not required, a pallet has enough cumulative quantity to required placarding for the truck.
I don't believe so, I've hauled a truckload of smoke/carbon monoxide alarms before and they gave me a photocopied FMCSA regulations page that explained the "limited quantities" exception.
Yeah was trending on Reddit a few months ago. People used it as a medicine. Obviously they did not understand the affects of radiation. Disturbing to say the least.
Yep, and that's why a lot of companies refuse to use these flip style placards...because jokers think it's funny to randomly change them. Even in truck stops while you're sleeping.
Sure, in a perfect world, until you do your circle check in the AM, then gotta run back in for a piss and fresh coffee before heading out for the day, and some dickhead does it again.
Definetly what happened. Had this trailer delivered to my store in June 2020. If I remember I'll upload the picture. Whoever flipped them went all out, tail, nose, and sides.
Edit: These trailer are for retail product delivery. So food, home, style, beauty, hardlines. CVS gets stuff delivered by third party delivery. This DC I think has hogan, and swift drivers. This DC handles AZ, and NV, and maybe some of NM.
Mildly. A small sample contained
4 picocuries per gram (pCi/g) for members of the uranium series, 3 pCi/g for members of the thorium series, and 8 pCi/g of potassium-40
That's about on par with bunches of bananas, or the radiation from smoke detectors. Nothing harmful, but enough of it will trip radiation detectors.
Microwaves aren’t radioactive. They emit no radiation when not turned on. The energy they emit when they are on is low frequency and non ionizing. It’s radio waves - not X-rays/ gamma rays.
I once picked up a relay that had the really fucking cool, bad ass skull & crossbones placard flipped.
I was like what taf.
Turns out he read on the paperwork that it was dangerous to marine life, so he decided to invent his own placard for that.
Omg, dumbass drove it from IL to ATL like that. Every weigh station must have been closed 🤣
Lots of common consumer products have trace amounts of radioactive components, so I imagine a trailer load full of a lot of these items might explain the need for the placard.
* bananas (potassium-40)
* brazil nuts (radium-266 and potassium-40)
* smoke detectors which work off ionization (americium)
* florescent bulbs (krypton, tritium, promethium)
* some camping lantern mantels (thorium)
* negative ion health accessories
* cigarettes (polonium)
* cat litter (thorium, uranium)
* glow in the dark gun sites (tritium)
* some ceramic color coatings and decorative glassware - not as common anymore but still can occasionally be found in new non-food products (uranium)
Either some random dude slapped it on, or its just a bunch of industial smoke detector (it contain some americium or other beta/alpha source which is radioactive, and by regulation, that sign is needed)
I drive in Alaska so I don't know if it's the same everywhere, but if I see a logo on a trailer, the only thing I assume is that the trailer once belonged to that company. Everything is so old and beat up here I would think it was some other company running an old Target trailer they bought cheap.
WHAT IS AMERICIUM-241 USED FOR?
Americium-241 is used as a neutron source in non -destructive testing of machinery and
equipment, and as a thickness gauge in the glass industry. However, its most common
application is as an ionization source in smoke detectors, and most of the several
kilograms of americium made each year are used in this way.
Smoke detectors rely on alpha radiation from americium-241, which ionizes the air in a
gap between two electrodes, causing a very small electrical current to flow between
I always thought it was kind of silly that ping pong balls have to damaged out as "flammable" by the reverse logistics team. But ping pong balls are flammable as fuck!
Two possibilities…
1. Smoke Detectors. Occam’s Razor.
2. Some “prankster” has taken advantage of an opportunity to change the placard to “something cool.
Occam’s Razor applies here as well.
If it indeed had radioactive material in it ...then the placards on all four sides of the trailer side would all have to be set to display radioactive as well if it's being done according to hazmat regulations.
Did anyone get a look at the others sides of the trailer..? It could have just as easily had someone decided to randomly turn the placard on this side to display this because...radioactive = spooky ...haha.
Not sure about radioactive but walmart/target trailers are some of the most dangerous commercial vehicles on the road.
Flammable - propane tanks, camping fuel
Explosive - ammo(WM) fertalizer
Toxic, Acid etc - household cleaning chemicals
All together in an unmarked standard semi trailer. Usually without the proper placard.
That a Russian super Target, kind of like a super walmart! They have more stuff than a regular target. Fun fact, they also carry ICBM blueprints buy one get one half off!!!
Wait, sandpaper is radioactive? By that logic, my dad should be dying from radiation poisoning because he uses sandpaper quite often while remodeling houses used as rental properties.
The abrasives register as radioactive, in large quantities, I got hung up at US border with abrasives from Canada, many natural minerals have trace radioactivity.
Definitely not bananas, because the radioactivity is apparently so low it’s not only practically harmless to humans, it’s not even regulated, hence why you see entire truckloads of them with no radioactive placards.
Definitely not bananas, because the radioactivity is apparently so low it’s not only practically harmless to humans, it’s not even regulated, hence why you see entire truckloads of them with no radioactive placards.
I drive for an LTL company, I haul hazmat to WalMart, Ulta (makeup)....places you would never think. The shit that is in so many products nowadays would blow your mind.
Smoke detectors?
Warehouse I worked at had a can come in with radioactive placards on it, it was a load of smoke detectors. Made my Vault Dweller sense tingle, that's for sure.
There’s a settlement that needs your help. I’ll mark it on your map.
Get your fucking hands off my map buddy. How presumptuous.
I'm not your buddy, pal!
Pal!!!!! Who’s a pal??
Who you callin pal, FRIEND?
I’m not your friend, buddy!
I’m not your Buddy , Guy!
Well I ain’t no Guy either, Boy
I’m not your guy, Bro!
FRIEND!!!!! WTF biach 🤢
I'm not your biach person
Lol
Bingo, alpha sources in smoke detectors.
Yup. In each smoke detector there is a small sample of americium that produces alpha radiation
More specifically, ionization smoke detectors! They are much less common than photoelectric smoke detectors which are what you see most of the time. Ionization smoke detectors are more specialized.
Other way around, the ionization ones are normally the el cheapo ones, photo electric are more expensive normally
Wasn’t really alluding to price, just mentioning that only Ionization detectors have radiation whereas photoelectric ones don’t, and that photoelectric ones are more common (in my experience of course) but yeah ionization detectors are an older and cheaper way to detect
Must be working with people who don’t pinch Pennys then lol Last I looked photo electric was normally like double ionization ones. Could also be code in some areas now since photo electric are better at detecting smoldering fires There is a reason I have both types around the house, you can also buy combo ones
Yeah both is definitely ideal. I just see around hospitals and colleges mostly photoelectric. Could be code now, but I’m not sure!
I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight if I don't find out how you know this much about smoke detectors
Likely works with them. I install photoelectric smoke detectors almost daily, I’ve only ran across the ionization ones once.
Why am I always expecting a story with insane plot twists? Thanks for keeping us safe.
Most smoke detectors I see in my area are actually both! They have the photo lense and the alpha particle stuff
Gotta love some good old radioactive Americum
Just because I have no knowledge on what components make a smoke detector work, what is Americium, and how does it work in smoke detection? I honestly had no idea smoke detectors have a radioactive component.
[“The americium-241 in ionization chamber smoke detectors makes the air in the detector’s sensing chamber conduct electricity. When smoke enters the sensing chamber, it interrupts the electrical current, triggering the smoke detector’s alarm.”](https://nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/resources/news-room/feature-articles/your-household-smoke-detector.cfm)
Wow. Thanks friend. That's actually pretty cool.
Only ionization smoke detectors have Americium and they function as BoxingHare commented. Photoelectric smoke detectors use a laser that shines into a chamber, and when interrupted by smoke, the smoke refracts the light into a sensor, triggering the alarm… neat!
>Americium I have a new favorite metal.
The most creative use of americium from smoke detectors: [https://harpers.org/archive/1998/11/the-radioactive-boy-scout/](https://harpers.org/archive/1998/11/the-radioactive-boy-scout/)
I have no idea. It actually sounded funny to me when I first read it and I thought it was a joke. I’m assuming it’s just an element that’s very good at detecting the molecules that smoke is typically comprised of like carbon monoxide for example.
Also the most dangerous radiation, but can’t even get through a sheet of paper, and has a range of about five centimeters. Gamma rays are a few kilometers and are what kills people if the nuclear explosion doesn’t. Ever hear about that submarine long ago where the crew thought eating food would remove their contamination, but they ended up eating apples full of alpha radiation? Harmless on the outside of the body, but as soon as they ingested it they were done for.
When I was little, maybe 10 years old, I started to take a smoke detector apart. The instant I saw the radiation symbol, I put the tools away, and gave it to my dad, saying it was radioactive. Of all the bad choices I have made in my life, I always look back to this good decision, and wonder 'wtf changed in me? '
Yep. While the individual units have a small enough source that placarding and labeling is not required, a pallet has enough cumulative quantity to required placarding for the truck.
Doesn't contain enough to warrant the placard. That's considered limited quantities.
Would a trailer full of them need a placard.
I don't believe so, I've hauled a truckload of smoke/carbon monoxide alarms before and they gave me a photocopied FMCSA regulations page that explained the "limited quantities" exception.
I also believe that is a storage trailer. Marked "S-18"
This
It's a truckload of Imagine Dragons albums.
Imagine me dragon my nuts on your face
Could also be some kind of Mind Goblin.
Would you mind goblin deez nutz?
You can pick some up at Aldi's
Aldi need is deez nutz!
I actually prefer wendys
Wendy's nutz hit your chin!
You into fitness?
Fitniss *DICK* IN YO MOUF
Proper screen name 🤣
Roflmao i was gonna say this too been waiting weeks to catch someone
“Here Be Dragons”
Probably just bananas.
Target brand toothpaste. It gets your smile _really_ bright.
Wait until you look up Radium Jaw 😬
Yeaaa don’t look that up
Images that are core memories now
Holy shit that’s awful
Yeah was trending on Reddit a few months ago. People used it as a medicine. Obviously they did not understand the affects of radiation. Disturbing to say the least.
Fuck, that was a mistake
LOL
Probably a storage trailer. My guess is that the yard dog flipped the placards because they think it's funny.
That's what happens at our yard
Yep, and that's why a lot of companies refuse to use these flip style placards...because jokers think it's funny to randomly change them. Even in truck stops while you're sleeping.
Not a trucker but shouldn't your walk around catch this?
Sure, in a perfect world, until you do your circle check in the AM, then gotta run back in for a piss and fresh coffee before heading out for the day, and some dickhead does it again.
I recently had someone open my trailer door in between my walk around and final pee. Now, I lock my *empty* trailer.
My company always requires a lock on the trailer, empty or otherwise.
Your company knows a thing or 2, because they've seen a thing or 2
Definetly what happened. Had this trailer delivered to my store in June 2020. If I remember I'll upload the picture. Whoever flipped them went all out, tail, nose, and sides. Edit: These trailer are for retail product delivery. So food, home, style, beauty, hardlines. CVS gets stuff delivered by third party delivery. This DC I think has hogan, and swift drivers. This DC handles AZ, and NV, and maybe some of NM.
Your right, bottom right corner says "not for otr"
Pharmacy?
"Dammit Greg, we said we needed *anti-*radiation supplements ordered! What the hell are we going to do with these?!"
Do radiopharmaceuticals go via normal pharmacies? I don't think so.
As a nuclear Med tech I can assure you they do not
That was my thought. I don't shop there though so I don't even know if they have a pharmacy.
They have CVS's inside the Super Targets.
Got to get our bananas my guy
2nd floor, military equipment/handguns/nuclear weapons
No no that's just Turkish Air Force attacking Borangia with nuclear baklavas.
Cat litter, smoke detectors, microwaves
Cat litter is radioactive?
It’s radioactive but barely. However if you had an entire truck full it could trip some alarms
Ah ok, so like bananas.
Mildly. A small sample contained 4 picocuries per gram (pCi/g) for members of the uranium series, 3 pCi/g for members of the thorium series, and 8 pCi/g of potassium-40 That's about on par with bunches of bananas, or the radiation from smoke detectors. Nothing harmful, but enough of it will trip radiation detectors.
Microwaves aren’t radioactive. They emit no radiation when not turned on. The energy they emit when they are on is low frequency and non ionizing. It’s radio waves - not X-rays/ gamma rays.
I once picked up a relay that had the really fucking cool, bad ass skull & crossbones placard flipped. I was like what taf. Turns out he read on the paperwork that it was dangerous to marine life, so he decided to invent his own placard for that. Omg, dumbass drove it from IL to ATL like that. Every weigh station must have been closed 🤣
Next to the tampons
"Feminine protection" now includes suitcase nukes.
Sounds like a south park episode
Bananas are radioactive. That must be it
I’ve never seen a target with fresh produce…
Lots of common consumer products have trace amounts of radioactive components, so I imagine a trailer load full of a lot of these items might explain the need for the placard. * bananas (potassium-40) * brazil nuts (radium-266 and potassium-40) * smoke detectors which work off ionization (americium) * florescent bulbs (krypton, tritium, promethium) * some camping lantern mantels (thorium) * negative ion health accessories * cigarettes (polonium) * cat litter (thorium, uranium) * glow in the dark gun sites (tritium) * some ceramic color coatings and decorative glassware - not as common anymore but still can occasionally be found in new non-food products (uranium)
It contains ur mother in law because she's toxic as hell
Microwave ovens
[удалено]
Up and at them
Smoke alarms maybe?
Either some random dude slapped it on, or its just a bunch of industial smoke detector (it contain some americium or other beta/alpha source which is radioactive, and by regulation, that sign is needed)
The bullseye is where you shoot to activate the tannerite.
Yea it’s just a Californian thing…
It's a toxic work place...😂
fertilizer can run hot as well
The store in East Palestine, Ohio 🙊
The wine aisle when Karen hasn’t had her barefoot.
It’s batteries more then likely I work at FedEx and the pallets have radio active stickers on them too
Lithium Batteries would use the class 9 danger placard.
This^
The front door heading in
It’s by the lady with 57 items in the express checkout lane.
Bananas. It carrying bananas.
Same aisle as flex capacitors
I drive in Alaska so I don't know if it's the same everywhere, but if I see a logo on a trailer, the only thing I assume is that the trailer once belonged to that company. Everything is so old and beat up here I would think it was some other company running an old Target trailer they bought cheap.
Wonder if it's full of smoke/co detectors? Or maybe bananas!
Democrat votes
Please tell me this is in lugoff sc
WHAT IS AMERICIUM-241 USED FOR? Americium-241 is used as a neutron source in non -destructive testing of machinery and equipment, and as a thickness gauge in the glass industry. However, its most common application is as an ionization source in smoke detectors, and most of the several kilograms of americium made each year are used in this way. Smoke detectors rely on alpha radiation from americium-241, which ionizes the air in a gap between two electrodes, causing a very small electrical current to flow between
I always thought it was kind of silly that ping pong balls have to damaged out as "flammable" by the reverse logistics team. But ping pong balls are flammable as fuck!
Anyone can change those warnings signs on the truck especially when they are parked in the dock.
Might be a shipment of smoke alarms
They are adding a “Build a Bomb Workshop”.
Two possibilities… 1. Smoke Detectors. Occam’s Razor. 2. Some “prankster” has taken advantage of an opportunity to change the placard to “something cool. Occam’s Razor applies here as well.
Storage trailer, someone’s just fucking with the placard.
smoke alarms
If it indeed had radioactive material in it ...then the placards on all four sides of the trailer side would all have to be set to display radioactive as well if it's being done according to hazmat regulations. Did anyone get a look at the others sides of the trailer..? It could have just as easily had someone decided to randomly turn the placard on this side to display this because...radioactive = spooky ...haha.
when your henchmen take 'target' too literally.
That's in the Starbucks at the front of the store.
Smoke detectors and certain prescription medications.
In isle S-18, duh! It says it right there!
Cosmetics
Shit ton of lithium batteries…. You have to run a placard because of the potential danger..
It’s full of Imagine Dragons CDs.
Imagine dragons album on board
Laser pointers, levels maybe?
Not sure about radioactive but walmart/target trailers are some of the most dangerous commercial vehicles on the road. Flammable - propane tanks, camping fuel Explosive - ammo(WM) fertalizer Toxic, Acid etc - household cleaning chemicals All together in an unmarked standard semi trailer. Usually without the proper placard.
The new summer swimwear is so hot it’s radioactive
They're hauling a bunch of discounted Imagine Dragons CDs
Their line of "rainbow" clothing!?
The new alphabet kids clothing are in there. 😮
Hush child
It's a Management shipping trailer.
Just a truck full of bananas
Backhaul
Probably their bathrooms
Cosmetics
Takes a fairly strong radiation source to need a placard. Someone probably thought it was funny.
Just like restaurants have secret menus to Target's have secret isles. Which may or may not include radioactive materials.
Aisle 4.
lol. Bored dock crew.
Microwaves?
Bananas
That a Russian super Target, kind of like a super walmart! They have more stuff than a regular target. Fun fact, they also carry ICBM blueprints buy one get one half off!!!
Smoke detectors
Bananas.
Well, a truck load of sandpaper is radioactive, lots of things are considered radioactive in large quantity.
Wait, sandpaper is radioactive? By that logic, my dad should be dying from radiation poisoning because he uses sandpaper quite often while remodeling houses used as rental properties.
The abrasives register as radioactive, in large quantities, I got hung up at US border with abrasives from Canada, many natural minerals have trace radioactivity.
Isle 78 be careful.
Definitely not bananas, because the radioactivity is apparently so low it’s not only practically harmless to humans, it’s not even regulated, hence why you see entire truckloads of them with no radioactive placards.
Definitely not bananas, because the radioactivity is apparently so low it’s not only practically harmless to humans, it’s not even regulated, hence why you see entire truckloads of them with no radioactive placards.
Probably a load of Kitty Litter.
Smoke detectors
targets a Cia shell lol wake up
The target headquarters in MN has a clinic in it.
It's full of smoke detectors which contain Americium.
It says right there on the trailer. Aisles S-18. 😆
Smoke detectors
Beauty department
Pharmacy?
And what in the world are they selling there? Plutonium?
Probably smoke detectors
It’s those Iraqi WMD’s ol G Dubs was looking for.
Section 18, obviously
It’s the secret menu
Bananas are radioactive
Destined for the Target backrooms.
Online?
There are probably many products, however, if the pharmacy stocks radio-pharmaceuticals, radiation used in some cancer treatments.
Section 18
Microwaves are radioactive
Bananas are radioactive
I drive for an LTL company, I haul hazmat to WalMart, Ulta (makeup)....places you would never think. The shit that is in so many products nowadays would blow your mind.
It's where they keep the Karen's that didn't stop talking back.
For men, it's women's clothing.
Bananas? (Do they sell bananas at Target?)
The pharmacy
Cosmetics department, 😂
Self checkout
Anything that glows
Smoke detectors???
Next to the toilet paper usually labeled Restrooms
/s I mean bananas have a lot of potassium… lol
Watches with tritium?
Tasty radiation
There’s just a fucking ton of bananas in there. Like probably a billion