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To: Brilliant
Closer to 1/3 pound. Not enuff for a nuclear explosion...and not highly enriched.

This amount is useful only for a dirty bomb.

3 posted on 08/16/2005 5:26:45 AM PDT by Mariner
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To: Mariner

that makes me feel better........NOT!!


14 posted on 08/16/2005 5:49:06 AM PDT by G Larry (Honor the fallen and the heroes of 9/11 at the Memorial Site.)
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To: Mariner; glock rocks; NativeNewYorker; bitt
This amount is useful only for a dirty bomb.

Uranium would not be that useful for a dirty bomb. It's not very radioactive. It's daughter products ar much more radioactive, but you'd have to have a much larger amount of uranaium to have to worry about daughter products. Unless you have a water well that gets its water from an aquifer with a whole bunch of uranium or have a poorly ventiated house near a source of uranium you wouldn't get much exposure to its daughter products. Plutonium, spent nuclear fuel, or radioisotopes from medical equipment would be much better components for a dirty bomb.

23 posted on 08/16/2005 6:50:57 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative (France is an example of retrograde chordate evolution.)
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