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To: brucecw

The tenth thickness of water is 4 feet for a 6Mev source.

In other words 4 foot of water will attenuate neutron / gamma radiation by 1/10th. If you a 1 million rem/hr source and dropped it into just 36 feet of water the radiation levels at the surface would be mere .1 mrem/hr.

In addition, a 1 million rem/hr source would be highly unstable if, as claimed, it was in a quantity as small as that of 'red mercury'.

Beside to have enough to 'destroy' the great lakes would require you to carry it around in a lead container the size of a small 2 story building due to the emitted radiation. Hardly a stealth weapon.

Looks like an Urban legend duck, quacks like an urban legend duck.


2,482 posted on 09/28/2004 6:44:33 PM PDT by 7mmMag@LeftCoast ("....to defend the Constitution of the United States, against all enemies, foreign and domestic")
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To: 7mmMag@LeftCoast
Looks like an Urban legend duck, quacks like an urban legend duck.

... Which does not preclude the distinct possibility that an al Qaeda operative paid $500k per kilogram for something that was billed as being that deadly ... some of them have been shown to be rather credulous about such things: it's fairly well documented that some of their operatives were using articles from the Journal of Irreproduceable Results as if they were serious scientific papers.

For those not in the know, the Journal was published for a number of years as a parody of a real scientific journal ... some really hilarious "research" was reported, in all apparent seriousness but with tongue firmly planted in cheek.

2,490 posted on 09/28/2004 8:35:01 PM PDT by brucecw
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