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Post #390,661
by boxley
6/11/14 7:55:06 PM
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New Georgia already has the material
and georgia tech grads can certainly build one
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Post #390,707
by gcareaga
6/12/14 12:50:16 PM
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New Securing nuclear materials
As a college student in the 1980s, I was often in a natural sciences laboratory building on campus. There was a door in a corridor opposite the vending machines. This door had a nuclear trefoil sticker on it and appeared to have the security precautions of a door to a custodian's closet. On the sticker was written 239Pu.

Of all the buildings on Science Hill, this one was considered to be the most seismically sound. An older large laboratory building was scheduled for seismic retrofit and the consensus was that if the big one hit before the retrofit, that building was a goner.

In 1989, a big one—if not THE big one—hit. The old seismically unsound building did fine. The new and safe building with the Plutonium inside came within five seconds of complete collapse. Going on a quarter century later, that building is still externally buttressed with large i-beams. The trefoil sticker is gone.

College campuses and fissile material don't go well together.

Back to your regularly scheduled thread.
     mmoffitt's thought experiment: let's discuss - (rcareaga) - (54) - June 11, 2014, 02:17:32 PM EDT
         how is your spanish? -NT - (boxley) - (7) - June 11, 2014, 02:48:59 PM EDT
             Explain your point, with great length please. - (folkert) - (6) - June 11, 2014, 03:09:38 PM EDT
                 no problema carnecita - (boxley) - (5) - June 11, 2014, 10:30:30 PM EDT
                     You really are... - (folkert) - (4) - June 12, 2014, 09:23:29 AM EDT
                         boys, boys - (rcareaga) - (3) - June 12, 2014, 10:20:31 AM EDT
                             depending upon how the state breaks down - (boxley) - (2) - June 12, 2014, 10:31:34 AM EDT
                                 excellent point - (rcareaga) - June 12, 2014, 10:47:13 AM EDT
                                 Re: lure for hard charging folks like the cartels. - (mmoffitt) - June 12, 2014, 11:08:39 AM EDT
         I'd be willing to forego the common militia. - (mmoffitt) - (9) - June 11, 2014, 03:38:42 PM EDT
             "free, unimpeded movement" - (rcareaga) - (8) - June 11, 2014, 04:54:31 PM EDT
                 Dude, don't kill my Utopian Buzz. - (mmoffitt) - (7) - June 12, 2014, 08:47:10 AM EDT
                     brief clarification & then - (rcareaga) - June 12, 2014, 10:05:14 AM EDT
                     I'll bet you're a Kunstler fan -NT - (drook) - (2) - June 12, 2014, 11:44:46 AM EDT
                         or conceivably of these folks - (rcareaga) - (1) - June 12, 2014, 12:16:48 PM EDT
                             Hmmm.. a Gantt-chart of these overlapping mind-sets would resemble a - (Ashton) - June 12, 2014, 07:59:45 PM EDT
                     another imagined contention - (rcareaga) - (2) - June 12, 2014, 05:09:10 PM EDT
                         I wonder. - (mmoffitt) - (1) - June 13, 2014, 09:18:40 AM EDT
                             That seems plausible - (rcareaga) - June 13, 2014, 10:09:16 AM EDT
         Fare thee well - (gcareaga) - (9) - June 11, 2014, 04:32:46 PM EDT
             Left to their own devices ... - (mmoffitt) - (6) - June 11, 2014, 04:40:57 PM EDT
                 Re: Left to their own devices ... - (rcareaga) - (3) - June 11, 2014, 05:03:17 PM EDT
                     Heh - (pwhysall) - (2) - June 11, 2014, 05:24:36 PM EDT
                         I borrowed the term... - (rcareaga) - (1) - June 11, 2014, 05:47:02 PM EDT
                             Pakistan had help. - (Another Scott) - June 11, 2014, 08:31:58 PM EDT
                 Forget the nukes - (scoenye) - (1) - June 12, 2014, 08:46:26 AM EDT
                     Seems a predictably-insoluble conundrum.. indefinitely. - (Ashton) - June 12, 2014, 07:09:05 PM EDT
             Georgia already has the material - (boxley) - (1) - June 11, 2014, 07:55:06 PM EDT
                 Securing nuclear materials - (gcareaga) - June 12, 2014, 12:50:16 PM EDT
         It's not the number of people that matters. - (Another Scott) - (23) - June 11, 2014, 08:57:11 PM EDT
             California even survived Gov. Moonbeam! :) - (a6l6e6x) - (9) - June 11, 2014, 11:22:13 PM EDT
                 You're aware, aren't you - (rcareaga) - (8) - June 12, 2014, 12:40:53 AM EDT
                     Every week I get several calls asking me to invest . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - June 12, 2014, 02:52:07 AM EDT
                     My first thought on first hearing the Moonbeam appellation was the obvious one: - (Ashton) - June 12, 2014, 04:48:29 PM EDT
                     Did you note the smiley? - (a6l6e6x) - (5) - June 12, 2014, 06:22:43 PM EDT
                         Noted, yes, but - (rcareaga) - (4) - June 12, 2014, 06:33:09 PM EDT
                             Well, Prop 13 comes to mind. - (a6l6e6x) - (3) - June 12, 2014, 07:32:11 PM EDT
                                 Re: Well, Prop 13 comes to mind. - (rcareaga) - (1) - June 12, 2014, 07:57:12 PM EDT
                                     Wiki-P gives a decent synopsis of Gann/Jarvis' motives and.. - (Ashton) - June 13, 2014, 04:44:01 PM EDT
                                 I remember my dad accurately predicting Prop 13 would destroy CA schools. - (mmoffitt) - June 13, 2014, 09:09:29 AM EDT
             Why not provide all states with nukes, then? - (mmoffitt) - (2) - June 12, 2014, 08:48:54 AM EDT
                 Why not? Because... - (rcareaga) - (1) - June 12, 2014, 09:48:18 AM EDT
                     Since about 1983, ... - (mmoffitt) - June 12, 2014, 11:01:23 AM EDT
             But size and geographic proximity do. - (mmoffitt) - (2) - June 12, 2014, 09:39:11 AM EDT
                 The drowning northeast - (gcareaga) - (1) - June 12, 2014, 12:33:17 PM EDT
                     The triage following the first serious water intrusions.. cannot fail to catalyze - (Ashton) - June 12, 2014, 05:27:50 PM EDT
             "Kampuchea...was briefly ruled by genocidal psychopaths" - (rcareaga) - (6) - June 12, 2014, 12:24:55 PM EDT
                 Foul!! Before displaying such a visage, the decent person - (Ashton) - (3) - June 12, 2014, 05:04:31 PM EDT
                     in a more perfect word... - (rcareaga) - (2) - June 12, 2014, 05:15:47 PM EDT
                         (I truly Should... live so long.) -NT - (Ashton) - June 12, 2014, 08:03:50 PM EDT
                         Much more apropos (and Fixed It For You) - (folkert) - June 12, 2014, 11:31:33 PM EDT
                 Where is my barf bucket? -NT - (a6l6e6x) - (1) - June 12, 2014, 06:26:21 PM EDT
                     here ya go - (boxley) - June 12, 2014, 06:52:43 PM EDT
         Related: - (malraux) - (1) - June 12, 2014, 04:07:02 PM EDT
             Food for thought, but as an early responder notes, - (Ashton) - June 12, 2014, 08:17:57 PM EDT

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