Comment by zoky
1 month ago
I think somebody who doesn’t know the full difference between uranium and plutonium definitely shouldn’t be having any.
1 month ago
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.
> They shouldn't have any but also shouldn't face jail.
If they are in possession of it, yes they should.
Here's a refreshment of what harm these morons can cause ti society.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident
From what others have posted, this sample was apparently 35 nanograms salvaged from a smoke detector - and was sold by the online store embedded within an acrylic cube labelled "plutonium" in addition to still being in the original casing from the smoke detector.
To me it seems like that's strictly less likely to cause a Goiânia incident than when it was just in an old smoke detector that could've potentially be thrown out without consideration.
>Four months before the theft, on May 4, 1987, Saura Taniguti, then director of Ipasgo, the institute of insurance for civil servants, used police force to prevent one of the owners of IGR, Carlos Figueiredo Bezerril, from removing the radioactive material that had been left behind.
The Goiania accident was caused by government imposition, stopping the owners from moving it from the abandoned clinic before it was looted. The government was the moron there, just as the government is the moron in this story. So a good example, but not in the way you thought, as it shows government intervention with nuclear materials leading to needless tragedy.