Re:Two men arrested with 7 kg radioactive uranium in Mumbai
by girvo on Friday May 07, 2021 @10:52PM
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I wonder if unenriched but still radioactive uranium chucked inside a conventional explosive bomb would be as scary as that sounds to me.
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Re:Two men arrested with 7 kg radioactive uranium in Mumbai
by eloff on Friday May 07, 2021 @10:59PM
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Not really. Basically just slightly scarier than the bomb itself.
It's not an effective terrorist strategy, since slightly raising cancer risk over a long period of time is one of the least dramatic and fear inspiring things.
The really dangerous stuff they don't seem to do, like lighting the forests on fire at the height of fire season, or engineering an airborne pandemic. Thankfully.
Re:Two men arrested with 7 kg radioactive uranium in Mumbai
by bsder on Friday May 07, 2021 @11:36PM
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You would be in more danger from the Uranium acting as a heavy metal ion poison than from radiation.
Breathing fine powders of metal ions is generally unwise--radioactive or no.