Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea

Re:Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea by IfOnlyYouKnew on Saturday June 27, 2020 @09:45PM (#23666183)

Back when the US was still interested in nuclear non-proliferation, they sponsored (together with the EU) the installation of radiation detection equipment at borders and other chokepoints, mostly in poorer countries.

These are fixed installations, monitoring mostly truck traffic 24/7, so their effectiveness doesn't depend on available manpower or current interest. Eastern Europe from Poland to the -stans has a lot of them, because former soviet republics had a lot of radioactive material lying around that was suddenly less important and even less guarded after the Cold War.

(Scientists were also suddenly out of work, and feared to be receptive to corruption. Fun fact: George Soros spent dozens of millions of his own money to empty a bunch of nuclear physicists in the 90s).

The point being: if it were a widespread problem, it would definitely be noticed.

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Re:Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea by fearingreprisal on Sunday June 28, 2020 @06:18AM (#23667835)

Can you provide a source for this claim that Soros employed nuclear physicists? After spending a few minutes searching online I can find no evidence of such a thing happening.

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Re:Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea by IfOnlyYouKnew on Sunday June 28, 2020 @09:08PM (#23673407)

Google [soros physicists] and it's full of documentation. I. e. https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/199708/soros.cfm

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Re:Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea by fludlight on Sunday June 28, 2020 @12:01AM (#23666664)

How, exactly, does one “empty” a person?

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Re:Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea by xerox13ster on Sunday June 28, 2020 @03:09PM (#23671225)

Psychologically abuse them for months or years, place impossible to meet expectations in front of them and tell them that any attempt to meet them is wrong before they've even started to make an effort. Let them be open and vulnerable with you and punish them for it, then later demand they be open and vulnerable and only randomly punish them for doing so. Oh and the entire time you are putting them through this, trivialize their emotions and show them that they're wrong for having them.

That should be a good start.

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Re:Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea by TheSpiceIsLife on Sunday June 28, 2020 @01:24AM (#23666907)

employ

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Re:Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea by pnako on Saturday June 27, 2020 @09:55PM (#23666226)

>George Soros spent dozens of millions of his own money to empty a bunch of nuclear physicists

Is there anything this monster won't do?

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Re:Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea by IfOnlyYouKnew on Sunday June 28, 2020 @03:37AM (#23667288)

Sorry for the autocorrect-induced confusion: he "employed" these people, obviously.

The purpose being to keep them busy and well-fed, preventing them from handing over nuclear material to terrorists for cash.

If it wasn't the mixed-up word or irony, I'd be really confused how this could be likened to the actions of a "monster".

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Re:Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea by pnako on Sunday June 28, 2020 @04:57AM (#23667569)

I'm no fan of Soros but in this particular case I was imagining the process of emptying scientists indeed

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