Comment by palmotea
10 months ago
> Lidden ordered the [plutonium] from a US-based science website and they were delivered to his parents' home.
So private ownership of plutonium is legal in the US, or is that site about to get shut down?
10 months ago
> Lidden ordered the [plutonium] from a US-based science website and they were delivered to his parents' home.
So private ownership of plutonium is legal in the US, or is that site about to get shut down?
I think small test sources are exempt,
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part071/p... ("[10 CFR] §71.15 Exemption from classification as fissile material")
Technically, I think it would get shutdown. Plutonium, U-235, and some other stuff requires special approval to own. But it's possible that if it's not pure and was part of a product, that it might be overlooked. There's probably a few nanograms of Plutonium in the legally allowed Uranium samples that you can own.