Nuclear straw purchase?

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Sting Reveals Security Gap at Nuclear Agency

By Kathleen Day
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 12, 2007; Page A01

Undercover congressional investigators posing as West Virginia businessmen obtained a license with almost no scrutiny from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that enabled them to buy enough radioactive material from U.S. suppliers to build a "dirty bomb," a new government report says.

The investigators obtained the license within 28 days from officials at the NRC, the federal agency that in addition to regulating nuclear power plants oversees radioactive materials used in health care and industry, the report by the Government Accountability Office says. NRC officials approved the request with a minimal background check that included no face-to-face interview or visit to the purported company to ensure it existed and complied with safety rules, the report says.Using a post-office box at Mail Boxes Etc., a telephone and a fax machine, the undercover investigators from the GAO obtained the license "without ever leaving their desks," the report says.
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I don't know why they are worried about my normal capacity magazines.:rolleyes:
 
Oh great! Now the ATF/NRC is going to start taking away my right to own enriched uranium too! :D hehe

This is actually really scary and just goes to show where the government (mostly liberals) have been spending their time, attention, my tax dollars.... and not so much on what really matters in the world. Thanks for sharing Kali!
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_bomb

At levels created from most probable sources, not enough radiation would be present to cause severe illness or death. A test explosion and subsequent calculations done by the United States Department of Energy found that assuming nothing is done to clean up the affected area and everyone stays in the affected area for one year, the radiation exposure would be "fairly high", but not fatal....

Because a terrorist dirty bomb is unlikely to cause many deaths, many do not consider this to be a weapon of mass destruction. Its purpose would presumably be to create psychological, not physical, harm through ignorance, mass panic, and terror.
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I don't see the problem. May as well ban fertilizer.
 
This is radioactive crap used by medical and laboratory personnel as "markers."

Sure, you could make a "dirty bomb" with it, but not a nuke. A dirty bomb is just an explosive device designed to spread something nasty around like radiation, by spraying around a bunch of radioactive substance(s).
 
Heh heh...I was injected *twice* with Thallium today. When I take my shower tonight, I'm gonna turn off the lights to see if I now have a Light Saber.
"May the Shwartz be with you..."

Biker:cool:
 
The reality of this world is that anyone with a minor in chemistry could potentially do a lot of damage. Bombs pose an infinately larger threat than just about any amount of firearms. Scary stuff.
 
Don't take a lot to build a "dirty bomb", this kid could've done it over a summer vacation, and there are no "regs" when you're doing something illegal:

http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html

David Hahn (born 1976) attempted to build a nuclear breeder reactor in 1994 in his backyard shed in Commerce Township, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at the age of 17.

This "Radioactive Boy Scout" set up a small breeder reactor in his parent's house!

The discovery eventually triggered the Federal Radiological Emergency Response Plan, and state officials would become involved in consultations with the EPA and NRC.

At the shed, radiological experts found an aluminum pie pan, a Pyrex cup, a milk crate and other materials strewn about, contaminated at up to 1000 times the normal levels of background radiation. Because some of this could be moved around by wind and rain, conditions at the site, according to an EPA memo, "present an imminent endangerment to public health."

After the moon-suited workers dismantled the shed, they loaded the remains into 39 sealed barrels that were trucked to the Great Salt Lake Desert. There, the remains of David's experiments were entombed with other radioactive debris.
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Of course now he has a somewhat normal life, but that was 1976, and this is 2007 - today Uncle Sam would haul his a$$ to Gitmo for an extended holiday and forget he ever left.
 
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