Comment by puppycodes
1 month ago
Small uranium samples are very often used to test geiger counters and is pretty common and not dangerous unless it becomes dust. Even then a far cry from anything massively concerning.
in terms of spicy rocks doesnt the specific plutonium(number) make a massive difference?
Not really.
Given that this guy was charged under a non-proliferation act it makes a massive difference whether it's Pu-238 or Pu-239.
Why, because one has a critical mass of 9-10 kg and the other has a critical mass of 11 kg? You'd think it would matter a great deal more that the amount he obtained was apparently 35 nanograms, so he was about a hundred million samples short of a working reactor.
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