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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-14-09 06:48 PM
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Arrests over 'radioactive' sale
Source: BBC News

Three men have been held in Ukraine for allegedly trying to sell radioactive material that could be used to make a "dirty bomb", security officials say.

The politician and two businessmen were held on 9 April in the Ternopil region.

The SBU security service said they were trying to sell what they thought was 3.672kg (8.2lb) of plutonium-239 for $10m (£6.7m).

However, authorities now say the material was not plutonium-239 and are working to determine what it is.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7998875.stm
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FailureToCommunicate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-14-09 09:10 PM
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1. Forget pirates, this is a real threat to America, and the world. Especially as the
Edited on Tue Apr-14-09 09:11 PM by FailureToCommunicate
nuke material sites are guarded by ever more impoverished guards...
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NorthernSpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-15-09 12:04 AM
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2. Pu239 would not be of much use in a "dirty bomb", but...
... but if you get enough of it together, you can make an actual :nuke: .


This sort of thing terrifies me. Glad these guys have been caught.


:scared:
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