Author Topic: Russian nuclear material stolen (Read 1295 times)

spitfiremkv · « **Reply #15 on:** February 23, 2005, 06:24:24 PM »

the main thing is to keep such material from entering the US.

Silat · « **Reply #16 on:** February 23, 2005, 06:36:13 PM »

Old news.............

mosgood · « **Reply #17 on:** February 23, 2005, 07:18:25 PM »

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Originally posted by Pei
I agree: it would be great if we could all just be nice to each other.

Now everyone have a lovely day!

"Hate never cures Hate.... Only Love cures Hate" Buddha

SunTracker · « **Reply #18 on:** February 23, 2005, 08:41:14 PM »

Uranium fuel rods are safe to carry out in your briefcase. I do think they require an extensive processing to turn into nuclear weapondry though.

Masherbrum · « **Reply #19 on:** February 23, 2005, 10:52:56 PM »

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Originally posted by SunTracker
Uranium fuel rods are safe to carry out in your briefcase. I do think they require an extensive processing to turn into nuclear weapondry though.

They'll steralize you. Here, hold this briefcase for us SunTracker.

Karaya

Wolfala · « **Reply #20 on:** February 24, 2005, 12:03:56 AM »

Fuel rods safe...heh.

I went to the University of Illinois, and even before 9/11 they were downplaying the fact that we had a 5 MWT training reactor on campus. My Nuc Engineering class got the grand tour and where they stored the spent fuel.

And I remember the guys words to this day...

"If you took this with your bare hands, you would get about 100 yards down the street before you dropped to your knee's."

Perhaps as a scare tactic - U-OX is fine if it hasn't been irrediated by neutrons - but that goes away very shortly after the reactor goes critical.

Wolf

NUKE · « **Reply #21 on:** February 24, 2005, 12:06:54 AM »

Russia is a screwed up mess of a country, and had been for a long, long time.

Siaf__csf · « **Reply #22 on:** February 24, 2005, 12:33:54 AM »

For once we agree whole heartedly NUKE.

bunch · « **Reply #23 on:** February 24, 2005, 01:29:14 AM »

By some estimations, for ever crime detected 10 - 100 are commited. One can only assume OBL right now in his cave listening to an illegal napster copy of Ride of the Valkeries & getting excited

Suave · « **Reply #24 on:** February 24, 2005, 02:32:48 AM »

Smuggling of military hardware from russia into china and north korea is a big problem. Most of it is not weaponry, su27 parts and such.

-tronski- · « **Reply #25 on:** February 24, 2005, 03:18:37 AM »

Maybe someone needed a nuclear reaction to generate 1.21 gigawatts of electricity?

Tronsky

SunTracker · « **Reply #26 on:** February 24, 2005, 03:26:22 AM »

I saw on 60 minutes people handling a uranium rod. It is safe. In fact, even the host held it in his hands.

Wolfala · « **Reply #27 on:** February 24, 2005, 03:39:26 AM »

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Originally posted by SunTracker
I saw on 60 minutes people handling a uranium rod. It is safe. In fact, even the host held it in his hands.

Sun - a spent fuel rod.

Masherbrum · « **Reply #28 on:** February 24, 2005, 08:29:39 AM »

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Originally posted by SunTracker
I saw on 60 minutes people handling a uranium rod. It is safe. In fact, even the host held it in his hands.

Spent rods are safe, we're not talking spent rods. On a Mineralogy trip to Bancroft, Ontario several years back, we went to a place that had Uraninite. The geiger counter was pegged at 15000 "clicks" a minute. That watermelon alone would steralize you within weeks if not enclosed properly. Uranium rods will not only steralize you, they'll kill you, if handled incorrectly.

Karaya

SunTracker · « **Reply #29 on:** February 24, 2005, 08:45:13 AM »

I dont think these were spent rods. These were rods distributed by the U.S. under a program by either Eisenhower or Truman. The program said it would take about 3 of these tiny rods to create a bomb the size of Hiroshima/Nagasaki. Each rod was about 24 inches long.