Yesterday evening's episode of CSI (Crime Scene Investigators) on the local network channel here in Montreal, featured a story involving uranium detection at the crime scene -- tiny flakes of paint from a little statue which was used as the murder weapon.
I thought that a somewhat positive aspect of the show was how the investigator's initial panic reaction became moderated. Unfortunately it only became so as a result of the lab-tech's explaining that it was just "trace amounts of uranium" ....as if a brick of 100% pure uranium would kill you on the spot (or something like that -- who knows what the story writers were thinking...).
Another minus was when the investigator exposed a film to some more uranium paint flakes taken from the murderer's gloves -- the film was exposed in a matter of seconds, showing bright specs of light on the print.
All I managed to get after exposing dental x-ray film to a 1-inch piece of high-grade uranium ore for about 8 hours, was a diffuse silhouette of the rock :-(
Pretty entertaining show nonetheless.... one of very few TV programs I bother watching.
Jaro