Buy Cheap Uranium! (If there are any terrorists, please don't open this thread! Please!)
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They don't need uranium. I remember i few years back some terrorists were caught trying to build a dirty bomb form the radioactive strips in smoke detectors. How were they caught you may ask, cause they order something like 15,000 smoke detectors from one place.
well said my friend.Aardvark Soup said:
this is uranium isn't the isotope 235. 235 is almost impossible to come by naturally. This uranium is 238.
HOWEVER. you could create a small reactor with this. about 5 years worth of power for the average person.
The trade of the material is, in fact, restricted but not outright illegal. The material in it's natural state does present a limited danger but not as much as one expects. Most of the radiation output of natural uranium is of the sort that cannot even penetrate the skin, and even when enriched the substance only presents a significant health hazard if inhaled. One can swallow a lump of the stuff and suffer little more complication than had they swallowed any other metal laden rock.sagacious said:uranium, along with helium, is regulated in the US by the government. If you are in the US, you've been lied to, they don't have any uranium.CosmicCommander said:
I just found this [http://unitednuclear.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=2_4] place on the Interwebs. And they actually are selling pretty cheap Uran0ium! I am very scared at the fact that you don't need a license to buy this...
The scariest thing is that the High, Super-High, and Ultra High radiation level stocks of their Uranium are sold out!
I'm tempted to buy some, but it would probably arrive at the door with several policemen accompanying it.
What's more, in it's natural state uranium exists in such low concentations that even the most dedicated evil-doer would be able to do little other than insert their rock into a sock and bludgeon people with it. It takes a surprising level of purity to use the substance for nuclear power and very nerly perfect purity to be used as the basis of a nuclear weapon. Thus, while the trade of unrefined natural uranium is restricted, it is much less so than the machinery required to enrich it.
The effectiveness of a dirty bomb is directly related to the lethality of the radiation emitted by the material. When a material has a half life in the billions of years, you can rest assured it isn't emmiting radiation at tremendous levels. U-238 has a Half-Life of > 4.5 billion years to U-235s ~ .705 billion years. The shorter the half life the more quickly the object breaks down and thus the heavier the radiation present (in general). Utterly unrefined uranium only exists in such low concentrations that using it in a dirty bomb would not likely result in a significant increase in the lethality of the weapon even over the long term.mokes310 said: