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Post #53,753
by mhuber
9/28/02 7:52:50 PM
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New W?
That makes it a bit old, I'd say. It's been just plain "Germany" since The Wall fell. Umm, no, it's been "Deutsland". My spelling may be a bit off, but that "D" I'm sure about.

Half life is one thing - these go bad by contamination and stuff, too. Container's at least ten years old (if genuine) it's probably pretty nasty by now.

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United we stand

Divided we dominate the planet without really trying
Post #53,760
by Another Scott
9/28/02 9:09:52 PM
9/29/02 1:07:31 AM
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New Yup that does seem strange. But Life/2 not an issue.
If it were tritium, the half-life would be an issue. Tritium's half-life is only 12.33 years, but U235's half-life is 704 M-years. I don't think contamination is much of a problem. U's pretty dense. Surface contamination would be cleaned off during the machining process.

CNN's now saying that it hasn't been determined to be weapons-grade yet...

I get the impression that the cylinder being shown is the 33 pound lump of uranium. Uranium's density is about 19 g/cc, so 15.7 kg would take up 826 cc. If the cylinder is 25 cm/10 in long then it would be about 6.5 cm/2.5 in in diameter. That seems about right to my uncalibrated eye.

The clearest picture of it I've seen is [link|http://www.msnbc.com/news/814321.asp?0si=-|here] on MSNBC. The orange stuff seems to be old celophane tape or something similar. On the right it seems to say something like "PRIMARILY TOURANUON" which makes no sense to me.

It'll be good if/when we have more information about this thing.

[edit](U235's half-life is 704 Myr, not 7.04 Myr as posted originally. Sorry.)

Cheers,
Scott.
(also, it's Deutschland. :-)
Expand Edited by Another Scott Sept. 29, 2002, 01:07:31 AM EDT
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     Turks seize 33 pounds of weapons grade uranium. - (Another Scott) - (24) - Sept. 28, 2002, 11:30:57 AM EDT
         Probably being smuggled into Israel non of the arabs want it -NT - (boxley) - Sept. 28, 2002, 12:02:26 PM EDT
         Obvious question - (ben_tilly) - (4) - Sept. 28, 2002, 12:08:24 PM EDT
             No way of knowing. That's part of what makes it scary. :-( -NT - (Another Scott) - (3) - Sept. 28, 2002, 01:31:56 PM EDT
                 Re: Also scary is ... - (dmarker2) - (2) - Sept. 28, 2002, 01:37:28 PM EDT
                     That's Even More Scary -NT - (deSitter) - (1) - Sept. 29, 2002, 11:52:45 AM EDT
                         ..but.. - (deSitter) - Sept. 29, 2002, 11:54:06 AM EDT
         Cylinder says "Made in W. Germany" - (Another Scott) - (5) - Sept. 28, 2002, 02:24:57 PM EDT
             If it was made in Germany... - (ben_tilly) - (2) - Sept. 28, 2002, 02:24:47 PM EDT
                 What Ben said - - (Ashton) - Sept. 28, 2002, 05:06:33 PM EDT
                 it's the defacto trade language - (SpiceWare) - Sept. 28, 2002, 10:43:55 PM EDT
             W? - (mhuber) - (1) - Sept. 28, 2002, 07:52:50 PM EDT
                 Yup that does seem strange. But Life/2 not an issue. - (Another Scott) - Sept. 29, 2002, 01:07:31 AM EDT
         My questions. - (Brandioch) - (3) - Sept. 28, 2002, 10:43:10 PM EDT
             a couple of answers ooma - (boxley) - Sept. 28, 2002, 10:58:25 PM EDT
             Re: My questions. - (Ashton) - (1) - Sept. 29, 2002, 06:45:19 AM EDT
                 Ditto. And some more links. - (Another Scott) - Sept. 29, 2002, 09:47:34 AM EDT
         Nothing to see here. Move along. - (marlowe) - Sept. 29, 2002, 02:15:42 PM EDT
         Nothing to see here: tiny amount of (some kind of) U - (Ashton) - (5) - Sept. 29, 2002, 08:11:43 PM EDT
             Yup. 5 oz. Suspects were released too. - (altmann) - (4) - Sept. 29, 2002, 08:18:21 PM EDT
                 WTF? - (Brandioch) - (1) - Sept. 29, 2002, 09:03:35 PM EDT
                     It is much easier to "explain" what happened when there... - (a6l6e6x) - Sept. 29, 2002, 09:42:28 PM EDT
                 How do they manage to miscount by that much? - (marlowe) - (1) - Sept. 30, 2002, 09:08:03 AM EDT
                     I don't smell anything fishy... - (Simon_Jester) - Sept. 30, 2002, 09:41:58 AM EDT
         5 oz of zinc, iron, zirconium and manganese seized. - (Another Scott) - Sept. 30, 2002, 10:00:29 PM EDT

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