Originally Posted by
Yamagata ken
I used to wear my father's WWII issue watch to school. In one physics demonstration, the teacher used tweezers to remove a radioactive sample from its protective box and pass a geiger counter over it. It gave a reading. He asked for volunteers and I handed over father's watch for testing. The geiger counter went off-scale. Oops.
No sign of wrist cancer so far, and I'm not planning on dying of it. Cheers.
I had a luminous watch from about 1960 to 1966. I was often getting a strange bruise on my wrist and thought it was just the watch rubbing against the skin, until we did a school vist to Bradwell Bay nuclear power station. Here we were scanned on leaving the reactor room and my watch gave a reading which set off an alarm!
I realised what was probably causing the 'bruise' then!