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Originally Posted by jason taylor
Apparently there was a thriving uranium mine in the region. According to the wiki U was used for photography, and as a glaze for glasswork, ceramic, and even dinnerware, the last of which sounds utterly insane in retrospect(nowadays when they use it for shot rounds they know enough to deplete it, then the whole point was that it glowed).
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No, metallic uranium oxides don't glow. I doubt even enriched/U-235 glows tot he human eye. Pure radium might but that's quite a bit more radioactive than even U-235.
Lots of metals and even heavy metals have ended up in pigments. Titanium white, chromium yellow, cadmium blue and others.