Is Radium Used Today

A soft, shiny and silvery radioactive metal. Radium now has few uses, because it is so highly radioactive. Radium-223 is sometimes used to treat prostate cancer that has spread to the bones. … Radium used to be used in luminous paints, for example in clock and watch dials.

Do they still use radium?

Radium is still in household products today, but not deliberately and not in amounts considered harmful by the government. Brazil nuts and some granite counter tops contain radium. And — if there was such a thing as Radithor’s Revenge — sometimes so does drinking water.

When was radium last used?

Radium paint itself was eventually phased out and has not been used in watches since 1968.