In reality you'd be fine as long as you aren't putting your nose right into an open case and inhaling any sort of radioactive dust that might have come loose in the years (As most radium watches are vintage IIRC because people stopped using it) and even then it only moderately increases your risk of cancer, it wouldn't kill you instantly. The trouble is that once it gets inside it can do the cancer causing damage, so don't take the back off without treating it as if it's some sort of radioactive dirty bomb, just to be safe.
RADIUM DIALS SKIN
Radium is an alpha emitter, which is good because it cannot penetrate your bare skin even if you are holding a lump (But don't hold a lump of Radium anyway because it's not smart, and without getting into a lecture on Radioactivity it's not just Radioactive Radium in there). Million Person Study Radium dial painter mesothorium.Radium watches are perfectly fine to wear. With scientific progress made in dosimetric methodology and models, the ability to perform a study over the entire life span, and the potential applicability to other scenarios such as medicine, environmental contamination and space exploration, the radium dial workers have once again come to the forefront. Renewed interest and opportunity have arisen. Despite being one of the most important and influential radiation effects studies ever conducted, shifting programmatic responsibilities and declining funding led to the termination of the radium program of studies in the early 1990s. The study of radium dial workers is part of the Million Person Study of low-dose health effects that is designed to evaluate radiation risks among healthy American workers and veterans. Time dependent dose-response analyses will estimate lifetime risks for specific causes of death. Comprehensive dose reconstruction techniques are being applied to estimate organ doses for each worker related to the intake of 226Ra, 228Ra, and associated photon exposures. Nearly 65% were born before 1920, 37.5% were teenagers when first hired, and nearly 50% were hired before 1930 when the habit of placing brushes in mouths essentially stopped. The last epidemiologic follow-up was 30 years ago when most of these workers were still alive. The mortality experience of 3,276 radium dial painters and handlers employed between 19 is being determined through 2019. The dial workers study has formed the basis for radiation protection standards for intakes of radionuclides by workers and the public. The tragic experience of the dial painters had a significant impact on industrial safety standards, including protection measures taken during the Manhattan Project.
Dial painters were primarily women and, prior to the mid to late 1920s, would use their lips to give the brush a fine point, resulting in high intakes of radium. Workers involved with the painting of dials and instruments included painters, handlers, ancillary workers, and chemists who fabricated the paint.
The discoveries of radiation and radioactivity led quickly to medical and commercial applications at the turn of the 20th century, including the development of radioluminescent paint, made by combining radium with phosphorescent material and adhesive. This paper reviews the history of the radium dial workers in the United States, summarizes the scientific progress made since the last evaluation in the early 1990s, and discusses current progress in updating the epidemiologic cohort and applying new dosimetric models for radiation risk assessment.
10 National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, Bethesda, MD, USA.9 Department of Medicine, Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN, USA.8 International Epidemiology Institute, Rockville, MD, USA.7 United States Transuranium and Uranium Registries, College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Washington State University, Richland, WA, USA.6 Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.5 MJW Corporation, Inc., Buffalo, NY, USA.4 Department of Medical Physics and Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.3 Department of Physics and Engineering, Francis Marion University, Florence, SC, USA.2 Center for Radiation Protection Knowledge, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA.1 Department of Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA.
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