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Cobalt 60 has a half life of 5.27 years. Assuming that a language lost to time is at least 500 years old, the rod should be fairly safe to handle. Heck, even after only 100 years less than 0.01% of the original amount of radioactive material would be left.
But that aside - One of the items that can be found in the video game series Avernum is Uranium bars, which give you a nice unhealthy glow :)
If it's actively glowing blue, I don't think it's safe to handle.
If it's actively glowing blue it means it's under water producing Cherenkov radiation and the water should shield you from the alpha particles.
But if it's a blue flash, that's a completely different effect and there was a criticality accident and you're probably going to die.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident
Somebody casted Repair on the rod
i cast mending on the pile of lead, giving me a solid cubic foot of weapons grade plutonium.
Briefly
hey DM what's the range of mending? as long as it's over a few kilometers i should be fine
What if it was stored in a fridge
Isotopes only have a "worst by" date unfortunately