Comment by SpicyLemonZest
1 month ago
Awareness that you're doing something wrong is a spectrum. Obviously this guy wasn't intending to build a nuclear bomb, but I'm extremely skeptical that a science nerd could get to the point of building a periodic table collection without learning that plutonium is dangerous and heavily restricted. (The source article doesn't cover this, so just to make sure we're on the same page: plutonium is _not_ any more legal to export from the US than it is to import into Australia, and whoever sold it to this guy was almost surely breaking the law too.)
I don’t think it’s crazy for someone to know that you can buy uranium and not realize the full difference between that and plutonium.
I think somebody who doesn’t know the full difference between uranium and plutonium definitely shouldn’t be having any.
They shouldn't have any but also shouldn't face jail.
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