Posted by
michael
on from the just-had-it-a-minute-ago dept.
jyuter writes "Apparently, Japan has lost 206kg of plutonium, enough to make 25 nuclear bombs. The official position is that it's not stolen, just 'unaccounted for.'"
Not feelng much better.
by
sporty
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· Score: 3, Interesting
The official position is that it's not stolen, just 'unaccounted for'
Wait.. lemme get this right.
It's either not a problem since it's just somewhere around, like your car keys
or
It's like someone car keys, someone else took it out for a ride, but we don't know who and if it is ok.
*boggle*
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ping -f 255.255.255.255 # if only
their government has it
by
zogger
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· Score: 2, Interesting
--although they as the recipient of the only nukes used in anger have a "public" position of being 'against" nuclear weaponry, it strains the bounds of credulity that they don't have their own weapons. Of course they do, I've taken that as a gimmee for a long time now. A nation that large, and with their level of technology simply has to have built last ditch contingency weapons, they have no choice in the matter.
Re:Buy it back
by
Simon+Field
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Does it bother anyone that most of the the
missing plutonium is thought to have been lost in
the waste water and "dissolved in other elements"?
It is bad enough that the waste is radioactive.
But plutonium is also very poisonous.
If the controls on the plutonium itself have 3%
error rates, how about the controls on the waste?
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Wait.. lemme get this right.
It's either not a problem since it's just somewhere around, like your car keys
or
It's like someone car keys, someone else took it out for a ride, but we don't know who and if it is ok.
*boggle*
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ping -f 255.255.255.255 # if only
--although they as the recipient of the only nukes used in anger have a "public" position of being 'against" nuclear weaponry, it strains the bounds of credulity that they don't have their own weapons. Of course they do, I've taken that as a gimmee for a long time now. A nation that large, and with their level of technology simply has to have built last ditch contingency weapons, they have no choice in the matter.
Does it bother anyone that most of the the missing plutonium is thought to have been lost in the waste water and "dissolved in other elements"?
It is bad enough that the waste is radioactive. But plutonium is also very poisonous. If the controls on the plutonium itself have 3% error rates, how about the controls on the waste?
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