Uranium -238 Seized in Moldova.

08-27-2010, 08:34 AM

Moldovan police seized 1.8 kilograms (4 pounds) of uranium-238 from a criminal gang that sought to sell it for as much as 9 million euros ($11 million) – http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...smugglers.html
Well, well, here it adds the main basis of that ‘renovated’ warm friendship between Moldova and Georgia… If you remember, previously it was exactly Georgia who had been accused of connivance and smuggling the Ukrainian uranium to Iran, but after the change of power in Ukraine and the Yanukovich’s accession there, who has ordered to liquidate the entire uranium stores, the source has failed. And what can we see now? The Saakashvili’s dirty business is alive and quite well doing… That means only one thing - he has found another supplier. I guess now it is Belarus, which also has enough of uranium since the Soviet times (I remember, Lukashenko even tried to blackmail Europe with it). The scheme of dirty business stays put with the only difference that now Georgia receives uranium materials via mediator (read Moldova) and resell it to Iran. Well, here’s the GUAM’s new formula for success: ‘the Azeri oil from the East to the West and the Belarusian uranium from the West to the East’. I think the Saakashvili’s impelling urge to bring Belarus into the organization now seems to be as clear as a day…

Undertoad · 08-27-2010, 08:56 AM

Well this is probably single-issue spam with a link in the user's first post, but I'm inclined to leave it, as it's interesting, and he put it in Current Events which took some consideration.

Griff · 08-27-2010, 09:07 AM

I wonder how much energy we're taking about?

side note Google just hit me with a (whats it called when you type the shown letters in the box) I wonder if they're having an attack or don't like nuclear bomb searches?

Undertoad · 08-27-2010, 09:28 AM

CAPTCHA'd you? That seems kinda random for Google. Getting attacked seems logical, they were a target of China some while back. What was your search term? I can't get it to do that to me...

xoxoxoBruce · 08-27-2010, 09:34 AM

U-238 is serious shit.

Lamplighter · 08-27-2010, 09:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

U-238 is serious shit if you have a nuclear reactor to bombard it into plutonium.

Fixed it for you...

But I agree with your original post too.

Griff · 08-27-2010, 11:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Undertoad

CAPTCHA'd you? That seems kinda random for Google. Getting attacked seems logical, they were a target of China some while back. What was your search term? I can't get it to do that to me...

Yeah, weird eh? It was some combo of nuclear bomb uranium 238. I wanted to figure out how much potential that much 238 had. Is it Hiroshima x ten? No black helicopters yet...

Gravdigr · 08-27-2010, 01:29 PM

Ukrainian uranium. Say that ten times fast.

Gravdigr · 08-27-2010, 01:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Griff

Yeah, weird eh? It was some combo of nuclear bomb uranium 238. I wanted to figure out how much potential that much 238 had. Is it Hiroshima x ten? No black helicopters yet...

If the FBI didn't have a file on you, they do now...

Also, never type "God" "bomb" and "Obama" in a post.

Aw, dammit!

classicman · 08-27-2010, 01:43 PM

lulz at Grave - I was gonna copy it, but ...

Griff · 08-27-2010, 03:02 PM

Yeah, it was nice knowing you digr. Maybe we can room at Leavenworth?

Urbane Guerrilla · 08-29-2010, 02:26 AM

OFGS, you guys. (If you're not deadpan joking.) That is depleted uranium. They use that for compact elevator counterweights, and in aviation. It is an alpha-emitter that has a half-life the age of the Earth: 4.5 billion years. This particular isotope of uranium metal isn't even really the active principle in reactor fuel: that requires enrichment in the fissionable U-235 to a content from about 5 to 20 percent.

Those boys were running a scam.

Though you could kill a guy by dropping it on his head out of a third-floor window. Aim right and it could be lethal enough.

Undertoad · 08-29-2010, 05:49 AM

Quote:

That is depleted uranium.

No it isn't.

Urbane Guerrilla · 08-31-2010, 02:25 AM

Sorry, but when you deplete uranium of the fissionable U-235 isotope, to enrich other mixes of isotopes of the metal, what is left is still DU -- either the initial metal refining or reprocessing of fuel rods. It is a considerably purer sample of U-238 than what you start with.

Quote:

The byproduct of enrichment, called depleted uranium or DU, contains less than one third as much U-235 and U-234 as natural uranium.

Quote:

Natural uranium metal contains about 0.71 percent U-235, 99.28 percent U-238, and about 0.0054 percent U-234. In order to produce enriched uranium, the process of isotope separation removes a substantial portion of the U-235 for use in nuclear power, weapons, or other uses. The remainder, depleted uranium, contains only 0.2 percent to 0.4 percent U-235. Because natural uranium begins with such a low percentage of U-235, enrichment produces large quantities of depleted uranium. For example, producing 1 kg of five percent enriched uranium requires 11.8 kg of natural uranium, and leaves about 10.8 kg of depleted uranium with only 0.3 percent U-235 remaining.

And that was just Wikipedia, FWIW. Wanna dig deeper? Sundry links this page.

Undertoad · 08-31-2010, 08:15 AM

When you looked it up in Wikipedia, did you notice that the U-238 page and the DU page were the same page?

08-27-2010, 08:34 AM	#1
Miths Guest Posts: n/a	Uranium -238 Seized in Moldova. Moldovan police seized 1.8 kilograms (4 pounds) of uranium-238 from a criminal gang that sought to sell it for as much as 9 million euros ($11 million) – http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...smugglers.html Well, well, here it adds the main basis of that ‘renovated’ warm friendship between Moldova and Georgia… If you remember, previously it was exactly Georgia who had been accused of connivance and smuggling the Ukrainian uranium to Iran, but after the change of power in Ukraine and the Yanukovich’s accession there, who has ordered to liquidate the entire uranium stores, the source has failed. And what can we see now? The Saakashvili’s dirty business is alive and quite well doing… That means only one thing - he has found another supplier. I guess now it is Belarus, which also has enough of uranium since the Soviet times (I remember, Lukashenko even tried to blackmail Europe with it). The scheme of dirty business stays put with the only difference that now Georgia receives uranium materials via mediator (read Moldova) and resell it to Iran. Well, here’s the GUAM’s new formula for success: ‘the Azeri oil from the East to the West and the Belarusian uranium from the West to the East’. I think the Saakashvili’s impelling urge to bring Belarus into the organization now seems to be as clear as a day…

08-27-2010, 09:07 AM	#3
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08-27-2010, 01:29 PM	#8
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08-27-2010, 08:56 AM	#2
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Well this is probably single-issue spam with a link in the user's first post, but I'm inclined to leave it, as it's interesting, and he put it in Current Events which took some consideration.

08-27-2010, 09:28 AM	#4
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	CAPTCHA'd you? That seems kinda random for Google. Getting attacked seems logical, they were a target of China some while back. What was your search term? I can't get it to do that to me...

08-27-2010, 03:02 PM	#11
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Yeah, it was nice knowing you digr. Maybe we can room at Leavenworth? __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

08-29-2010, 02:26 AM	#12
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	OFGS, you guys. (If you're not deadpan joking.) That is depleted uranium. They use that for compact elevator counterweights, and in aviation. It is an alpha-emitter that has a half-life the age of the Earth: 4.5 billion years. This particular isotope of uranium metal isn't even really the active principle in reactor fuel: that requires enrichment in the fissionable U-235 to a content from about 5 to 20 percent. Those boys were running a scam. Though you could kill a guy by dropping it on his head out of a third-floor window. Aim right and it could be lethal enough. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

08-31-2010, 08:15 AM	#15
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	When you looked it up in Wikipedia, did you notice that the U-238 page and the DU page were the same page?

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