Turkish police seize 1.4 kg of radioactive californium in Ankara

Re:Turkish police seize 1.4 kg of radioactive californium in... by thisisforyou on Monday March 19, 2018 @11:23AM (#16619052)

Article mentions seizure of red mercury (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_mercury) which suggests that either the writer is incredibly misinformed or this is an intentional disinfo piece.

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Re:Turkish police seize 1.4 kg of radioactive californium in... by Erlangolem on Monday March 19, 2018 @11:27AM (#16619097)

Everything in the article suggests that it’s either moronic clickbait (FB tier) or disinformation.

Implausible amounts of Californium, nonsense about red mercury, the bit about Al... it reeks.

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Re:Turkish police seize 1.4 kg of radioactive californium in... by Thorondor on Monday March 19, 2018 @12:02PM (#16619426)

I'm also pretty skeptical about this story to be honest, but FWIW it was repeated by the BBC. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43463195 The link I submitted is the nearest I can find to an original source.

The truth is probably either that a smaller amount of californium was seized (possibly 1.4g) or the californium was part of a 1.4kg assembly including some other elements.

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Re:Turkish police seize 1.4 kg of radioactive californium in... by Erlangolem on Monday March 19, 2018 @12:07PM (#16619474)

1.4 grams would be more than 4 years total world production.

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