Uranium -238 Seized in Moldova. - Page 2

Urbane Guerrilla · 09-02-2010, 07:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Undertoad

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

That was, I believe, my point.

tw · 08-31-2010, 07:49 PM

Not provided are details that say whether U-238 is a problem or just another expensive metal. For example, high purity U-238 is even added to some materials as a radiation filter. U-235 content, purity, and other numbers are critical to understand the value (or threat) of that material. Numbers that were not provided.

More relevant is how they obtained this material. Who is marketing this stuff? And what else to they have access to?

Undertoad · 09-02-2010, 08:56 PM

Well, they aren't. They are different pages.

And that, I believe was my point.

Urbane Guerrilla · 09-04-2010, 12:35 AM

If you had one, that is. U-238 is DU. It sure as hell wouldn't be DU were it U-235.

Undertoad · 09-04-2010, 09:40 AM

It's like this: a cast iron skillet is iron, yes? You would look at a cast-iron skillet and say, "Oh, this is iron."

But iron is not a cast iron skillet. You would not look at a block of iron and say, "Oh, this is a cast iron skillet."

Similarly, DU is U-238. But U-238 is not DU.

Urbane Guerrilla · 09-08-2010, 02:17 AM

Since you cannot have DU without U-238, your point if any continues obscure. AFAIK, the scamsters were offering several kilos of uranium metal. Now then, were the victims of the scam in the market for elevator counterweights, or fissionables?

Undertoad · 09-08-2010, 08:17 AM

And you cannot have a cast iron skillet without iron.

Urbane Guerrilla · 09-16-2010, 11:33 AM

And so we come back to where we should have been all along, UT: depleted uranium is U-238, as much as refiners can conveniently make it.

Undertoad · 09-16-2010, 01:21 PM

Bill Clinton won the Bosnian War

Crimson Ghost · 09-17-2010, 12:58 AM

Perhaps someone wanted to build a Space Modulator?

Urbane Guerrilla · 09-18-2010, 12:28 AM

UT, if you know what point you are making, perhaps you might actually make it? If you're trying to bait, it is unbecoming, and you know how smart I think people are who persist in the unbecoming, don't you?

Undertoad · 09-18-2010, 09:39 AM

Bill Clinton won the Bosnian War

Urbane Guerrilla · 09-20-2010, 12:15 PM

I don't need the last word so long as I may have the best.

09-04-2010, 12:35 AM	#4
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	If you had one, that is. U-238 is DU. It sure as hell wouldn't be DU were it U-235. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

09-08-2010, 02:17 AM	#6
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Since you cannot have DU without U-238, your point if any continues obscure. AFAIK, the scamsters were offering several kilos of uranium metal. Now then, were the victims of the scam in the market for elevator counterweights, or fissionables? __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

09-16-2010, 11:33 AM	#8
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	And so we come back to where we should have been all along, UT: depleted uranium is U-238, as much as refiners can conveniently make it. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

09-17-2010, 12:58 AM	#10
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09-18-2010, 12:28 AM	#11
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	UT, if you know what point you are making, perhaps you might actually make it? If you're trying to bait, it is unbecoming, and you know how smart I think people are who persist in the unbecoming, don't you? __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

08-31-2010, 07:49 PM	#2
tw Read? I only know how to write. Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 11,933	Not provided are details that say whether U-238 is a problem or just another expensive metal. For example, high purity U-238 is even added to some materials as a radiation filter. U-235 content, purity, and other numbers are critical to understand the value (or threat) of that material. Numbers that were not provided. More relevant is how they obtained this material. Who is marketing this stuff? And what else to they have access to?

09-02-2010, 08:56 PM	#3
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Well, they aren't. They are different pages. And that, I believe was my point.

09-04-2010, 09:40 AM	#5
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	It's like this: a cast iron skillet is iron, yes? You would look at a cast-iron skillet and say, "Oh, this is iron." But iron is not a cast iron skillet. You would not look at a block of iron and say, "Oh, this is a cast iron skillet." Similarly, DU is U-238. But U-238 is not DU.

09-08-2010, 08:17 AM	#7
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	And you cannot have a cast iron skillet without iron.

09-16-2010, 01:21 PM	#9
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Bill Clinton won the Bosnian War

09-18-2010, 09:39 AM	#12
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Bill Clinton won the Bosnian War

09-20-2010, 12:15 PM	#13
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	I don't need the last word so long as I may have the best. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

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