Holy ****: 33 pounds of weapons-grade Uranium discovered by Turkish police

[Bereta_Eder]

they burned up whole kurdish villages. how is this "shielding"?

anyway you're discredited by your apathy for the slaughetered by turkey little children and women.

have to go now.

[Giancarlo]

Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia
Yeah, and I'm sure your country Fez, has impeccable human rights throughout history.

HOLD IT RIGHT THERE.

Did I say anything about my country? My country's human rights record sucks. You want to know about the inquistion? My stomach literally turns about the crimes the old theocratic state committed.

But we have a new government in power.

Paiktis, your favorite Kurdish militants use human shields. Shows how much guts they have.

[Dr Strangelove]

Is there some way that we could take Fez's and Paiktis' avatars and animate the arguement that they're having now? It would be highly entertaining.

[Provost Harrison]

33lb of weapons grade uranium? Very unlikely. Do you have any idea how much that would weigh?!

[KrazyHorse]

33 lbs?

[Provost Harrison]

That was meant to be a joke Frogger, alas, it went straight over your head

[KrazyHorse]

What sort of joke was it meant to be?

[KrazyHorse]

A bad one?

[Provost Harrison]

[Ethelred]

Originally posted by Frogger


If I knew the activity of U235 I'd be able to do some order-of-magnitude calcs for this...

There is also the problem that 30 pounds of that stuff may be a critical mass. The exact amount apeers to be classified but its around there, maybe as much as 50 poounds.

The stuff isn't just a beta emiter. Its an alpha emitter PLUS it fissions spontaneously. Now it could be that the total package weighed 30 pounds including the lead. Fraud is possible as well.

[KrazyHorse]

Its minimum critical mass assumes you've put it into a sphere (best geometry). If you've spread it out a bit (even in such a limited space as that under the front seats of a car) then it will not go critical.

[GePap]

I wonder who was driving the car.... 'Yeah , sure, sitting on top of that much weapons grade U235 isn't dangerous at all. Your kids will be all right- whats three eys and such...."

Well, if the physicists here think its a load of crap, that just confrims my suspicions. Too auspicious a finding for some folks.

[KrazyHorse]

And if you were worried about that, packing it into a few beryllium cases would be enough (IIRC, beryllium has a very high neutron-absorption cross-section)

[The Mad Monk]

Drudge has this image up:



Anyone know what it is? I'm assuming it's the container.

[Drake Tungsten]

Does that container say "Made in Germany"?

Damn that Schroeder!