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London Nuke Plant Loses 30 Kilos of Plutonium
solafide writes "The Globe and Mail reports 'A British nuclear-reprocessing plant [at Sellafield] cannot account for nearly 30 kilograms of plutonium, but authorities believe it is an accounting issue rather than a loss of potential bomb-making material, the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority said.' Although it says later plutonium is only 1% of what they deal with there. The Times Online has more details."
Whoa. Them Londerners is gonna build one of them atomic bombs and get us. Hey, GWB! Let's get em. The US is gonna bomb London now! Look out Tony Blair, you thought you was gonna trick us eh? Well, your gonna take a missile up the tailpipe from good ol Bush. Fsckin traitorous terrorist limey brit bastards. Ha! and you all thought that Iran and Syria would be next. We sure fooled you!
I know it's here somewhere.
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1.21 Gigawatts?
... of course not. Out of sight out of mind.
.... GOOOOOO AMERICA!
Why let things like that "seem more important" than say "funding for my good 'ol boys" for a war in Iraq?
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I got news for you: most Americans think that Boston is the same as New York!
"cannot account for nearly 30 kilograms of plutonium... Although it says later plutonium is only 1% of what they deal with there."
Does this mean they are missing 3000kg of uranium?
Um... where's England?
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
This may come as a shock, but most Americans don't think about Boston or New York at all.
Well, except maybe in October.
"hen a nuke goes off, I'll just do what everyone else does."
Find a twinkie factory?
Tom
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Damn it, then Liverpool fans got into the nuclear power station again! Time to send things by Royal mail, it'll never arrive so at least it's safe in a black hole.
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Even less. 20,000 tons of TNT = about 8.4 x 10^13 J = 0.93 grams of matter converted to energy.
Let's not go ballistic, here.
Sometimes boldness is in fashion. Sometimes only the brave will be bold.
At the beginning of every Simpsons episode, Homer pulls out something radioactive from his shirt and tosses it away. I'll bet that's added up to 30 kg over the years!
"And precisely how much nuclear material has escaped?" said the interviewer.
There was a pause. "We wouldn't say escaped," said the spokesman. "Not escaped. Temporarily mislaid."
"You mean it is still on the premises?"
"We certainly cannot see how it could have been removed from them," said the spokesman.
"Surely you have considered terrorist activity?"
There was another pause. Then the spokesman said, in the quiet tones of someone who has had enough and is going to quit after this and raise chickens somewhere, "Yes, I suppose we must. All we need to do is find some terrorists who are capable of taking an entire nuclear reactor out of its can while it's running and without anyone noticing. It weighs about a thousand tons and is forty feet high. So they'll be quite strong terrorists. Perhaps you'd like to ring them up, sir, and ask them questions in that supercilious, accusatory way of yours."
"But you said the power station is still producing electricity," gasped the interviewer.
"It is."
"How can it still be doing that if it hasn't got any reactors?"
"We don't know," he said. "We were hoping you clever buggers at the BBC would have an idea."
You are thinking small.
They have the plutonium, now all they need is an old Delorean and time as we know it is no more!
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Oh, is that the "bowling balls" that also have uranium around the plutonium core, then aluminium and high explosives. Yeah...we know those...
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Too late. Tony Blair already made us the 51st state a long time ago.
Some weird guy in a DeLorean was seen at the spot, doing roughly 88 mph, before mysteriously disappearing ...
Somebody set up us the bomb.
Where was it the last time you had it?
Have you tried looking under the bed - that's where most of the stuff I loose ends up.
No?
Bugger it then, must be an accounting issue.
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I live in London and when i read that I was thinking, "Is Sellafield near London, I always thought it was in the other end of England."
The moral of the story is: Never assume an American knows geography better than you, even if he writes for slashdot.
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When a nuke goes off, I'll just do what everyone else does.
Burn?
((4/3)Pi((d/2)^3))*(19.84) > 50 kg
Therefore, it is obvious that all grapefruits have a diameter of 16.88 cm and the plutonium missing is inadequate to construct a bomb.
I found it on ebay, the starting bid is $25.00 and he will ship international.