Man prosecuted for fucking around with radioactive materials
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[quote]A 33-year-old man cooked up radioactive substances on the stove in an attempt to achieve a nuclear reaction home in the kitchen of a flat in Angelholm. Now he is being prosecuted for violating the Radiation Protection Act. He also made ricin, a chemical weapon, and abrin, which is a biological warfare agents.
Prosecutor Lars Magnusson filed lawsuit to Helsingborg District Court on Thursday. He emphasizes that the intention appears not to have been to hurt other people. - He did it to see if it could, says the prosecutor told TT. But it could have ended badly. The two weapons are the man-made could potentially kill "hundreds of people" according to the prosecutor. The man contacted Radiation Safety authority when the experiment went wrong and he admits the facts.[/quote]
[URL]http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=83&artikel=5834162[/URL]
Reminds me of that man who tried to split an atom in his kitchen a few years back.
WMD enthusiasts.
Now I've seen everything.
I wonder what "went wrong" to cause him to approach the authorities and admit to a crime like this.
kinda like the boy scout in the 90's who tried to make a nuclear reactor in his backyard
it isn't really that hard to build a reactor all the plans are online, like so many other things and small amount of fissionable material can be found anywhere.. even plants that emitted small amounts of radiation.
What the fuck did he think would happen? That a piece of Uranium would blow up like Hiroshima if he heated it up?
I don't think it works that way, does it?
[QUOTE=Genericenemy;44508887]Reminds me of that man who tried to split an atom in his kitchen a few years back.[/QUOTE]
This is the same man. He's just getting prosecuted now.
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Also edited the article because it was wrongly translated to make it seem like he did it to hurt people.
[QUOTE=DEMONSKUL;44509101]What the fuck did he think would happen? That a piece of Uranium would blow up like Hiroshima if he heated it up?
I don't think it works that way, does it?[/QUOTE]
Not even close.
[QUOTE=Falubii;44509184]Not even close.[/QUOTE]
well, that's just it suppose to be that you need a reactor to create weapons grade as to the process i'm a little unsure.
[QUOTE=Dark One;44509048]it isn't really that hard to build a reactor all the plans are online, like so many other things and small amount of fissionable material can be found anywhere.. even plants that emitted small amounts of radiation.[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure you need about a kilogram of pure isotopes to achieve a real fission event
tbh I'm more worried he made fucking ricin. Seriously ricin will fuck your shit up hardcore.
[QUOTE=Chubbs;44509579]tbh I'm more worried he made fucking ricin. Seriously ricin will fuck your shit up hardcore.[/QUOTE]
You're probably just saying this because you watched Breaking Bad. There are much more dangerous toxins than ricin.
[QUOTE=EvacX;44509633]You're probably just saying this because you watched Breaking Bad. There are much more dangerous toxins than ricin.[/QUOTE]
Still dangerous though, just to a lesser extent.
That's some hobby he's got there..
[QUOTE=EvacX;44509633]You're probably just saying this because you watched Breaking Bad. There are much more dangerous toxins than ricin.[/QUOTE]
I've never watched breaking bad lol.
and yes I know there are far more dangerous things than ricin.
[QUOTE=Ganix565;44508967]kinda like the boy scout in the 90's who tried to make a nuclear reactor in his backyard[/QUOTE]
not really, the boy scout at least wasnt retarded enough to think that cooking it on the stove would cut it
[QUOTE=bootv2;44511362]It actually has to be at least 85% of purified uranium 235 isotopes. But you'll need about 56 kg's of that mixture to get a critical mass(which is required for a nuclear explosion).
This is the type of bomb that was used on hiroshima according to wikipedia.[/QUOTE]
The Little Boy was a very early model fission weapon (the first actually) and was very inefficient. You can get fission with much lower quantities of U235.
I was under the impression that a fission explosion has more to do with density than with mass. Like, if you have a sufficient mass just sitting on a table, it'll undergo a runaway reaction all on its own, but for smaller masses you have to artificially compress it. Correct me if I'm wrong, but theoretically [i]any[/i] mass of fissile material could be made to explode, assuming that you compress it hard enough and hold it at that density long enough for the reaction to blow up in your face. Granted, for very small masses of fissile material, the amount of energy needed to compress it to the critical density is probably prohibitively large, but this is about !!SCIENCE!!, not practicality.
[QUOTE=Decoy Ocelot;44511603]I was under the impression that a fission explosion has more to do with density than with mass. Like, if you have a sufficient mass just sitting on a table, it'll undergo a runaway reaction all on its own, but for smaller masses you have to artificially compress it. Correct me if I'm wrong, but theoretically [i]any[/i] mass of fissile material could be made to explode, assuming that you compress it hard enough and hold it at that density long enough for the reaction to blow up in your face. Granted, for very small masses of fissile material, the amount of energy needed to compress it to the critical density is probably prohibitively large, but this is about !!SCIENCE!!, not practicality.[/QUOTE]
Critical mass can vary based on many things, including density.
[QUOTE=Genericenemy;44508887]Reminds me of that man who tried to split an atom in his kitchen a few years back.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/man-arrested-for-attempting-to-split-the-atom-in-his-kitchen.html[/url]
here's a link to that story
[QUOTE=EvacX;44509633]You're probably just saying this because you watched Breaking Bad. There are much more dangerous toxins than ricin.[/QUOTE]
like dimethylmercury, the shit passes straight through everything synthetic, and only 1-2 drops of it is fatal
seriously though he was probably trying to cook off impurities or something, im not sure what he was manipulating though
[editline]10th April 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=FurrehFaux;44511713][url]http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/man-arrested-for-attempting-to-split-the-atom-in-his-kitchen.html[/url]
here's a link to that story[/QUOTE]
[quote]No, it not so dangerous. But I tried to cook Americium, Radium and Beryllium in 96% sulphuric-acid, to easier get them blended. But the whole thing exploded upp in the air...[/quote]
hmm...im like pretty sure cooking berylium and sulphuric acid forms some tiny bit of an obscure mix of rocket fuel not a nuclear explosion
This headline reminds me putin's radioactive tea.
[QUOTE=Sableye;44512742]like dimethylmercury, [B]the shit passes straight through everything synthetic[/B], and only 1-2 drops of it is fatal
seriously though he was probably trying to cook off impurities or something, im not sure what he was manipulating though
[editline]10th April 2014[/editline]
hmm...im like pretty sure cooking berylium and sulphuric acid forms some tiny bit of an obscure mix of rocket fuel not a nuclear explosion[/QUOTE]
I think you mean organic. The methyl groups make it an organic compound allowing it to pass straight through skin unhindered. It also WILL pass through a lot of synthetic materials, but there are certain things you can wear to protect yourself against it.
Hydrofluoric acid is pretty damn scary. A burn the size of a coin on skin will usually go unnoticed for hours (you don't feel it immediately) and, if left untreated, will usually prove fatal. It's also used a lot in certain labs. One of the Ph.D students at my uni burned his finger on hydrofluoric acid a few weeks back and didn't realise it until he woke up in the middle of the night screaming in agony. His finger tip is all fucked up now apparently (not sure if it'll get better or if it'll be permanently fucked).
by synthetic i meant just about every synthetic material it will pass through and the only thing that stops it is laminated gloves that are already covered with other gloves and more gloves ontop of that...
[quote]Dimethylmercury passes through latex, PVC, butyl, and neoprene rapidly (within seconds) and is absorbed through the skin. [/quote]
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