I'd love to have some of that, but I'd be too scared to handle it.
My project only calls for tiny amounts of radium, though only for electron capture, so I prefer to simulate the effect electrically. I could probably get my hands on some radium, but I'm lazy and I don't feel like rebuilding everything.
( Digeridude Lord Wellington's Beef Trapeze, Sun 28 May 2006, 3:53, archived)

Hehe
we use radium sources for our trainees to play with, you'd be amazed at going round some of the old sites where it was used (watch /clock factories) and finding the levels of contamination in drains etc..
( Hankster, Sun 28 May 2006, 3:59, archived)