Comment by perihelions
2 days ago
The plutonium sample is reported to be something similar to this,
https://carlwillis.wordpress.com/2017/02/07/analysis-of-sovi... ("Analysis of Soviet smoke detector plutonium" (2017))
2 days ago
The plutonium sample is reported to be something similar to this,
https://carlwillis.wordpress.com/2017/02/07/analysis-of-sovi... ("Analysis of Soviet smoke detector plutonium" (2017))
I believe it was this https://www.luciteria.com/element-cubes/plutonium-for-sale
Right, they're both Soviet ionization smoke detectors based on Pu-239. The Carl Willis blogpost is a teardown of one such similar item.
Oh, well if that's the case thats waaay more bananas. Like maybe around 4000.
Nobody should be eating that many bananas.
"This item is now discontinued." I wonder if this incident is the reason (or if it simply sold out in the aftermath).