http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=15&art_id=vn20100710085544493C308461
“Four bust in ‘dirty bomb’ sale sting”
July 10 2010 at 10:44AM
SNIPPET: “A policeman said the source of the Caesium-137 was unknown and investigators were going all out to locate the larger device. “We don’t know what these suspects’ intentions were and we need to find the device quickly,” he said.
Nuclear Energy Corporation of SA spokeswoman, Chantal Janneker, confirmed the material was Caesium-137, and said there had been no contamination in the area.
Hawks spokesman, Colonel Musa Zondi, said the four were arrested as they tried to sell the stolen material which was a sample of a device which was to be sold for R45 million.”
Remind me not to buy nuclear devices from guys at
gas stations.
“Yo Bro, check it. real thing, nuke bling,
six mill and I throw in the lead box”.
What exactly is an “industrial nuclear device”? And what industry uses them? Something isn’t right in this story... I think.
“The Russians had plutonium; the sailors wanted beer.”
I always thought the old colloquial term “nuclear device,” meant a fission bomb. Now, it means a plain old bomb “enhanced” with radiation. There is a MAJOR difference between the two.
These four are utter idiots, al Qaeda and Bin Laden would have bought this thing in a heartbeat for $6 million .... =.=