Rapidcreek@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 7 months agoFeds charge Japanese Yakuza leader with nuclear materials traffickingwww.cnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1126arrow-down15
arrow-up1121arrow-down1external-linkFeds charge Japanese Yakuza leader with nuclear materials traffickingwww.cnbc.comRapidcreek@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 7 months agomessage-square23fedilink
minus-squareRapidcreek@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down7·7 months agoNot very obvious. By definition weapons-grade plutonium is 90% enriched. Besides being used for nukes, it’s the most poisonous substance on earth. Needless to say, the security around this material is as tight as we can make it. Somebody somewhere sold this guy some.
minus-squareskillissuer@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·7 months agoyou don’t enrich plutonium silly
Not very obvious.
By definition weapons-grade plutonium is 90% enriched. Besides being used for nukes, it’s the most poisonous substance on earth. Needless to say, the security around this material is as tight as we can make it. Somebody somewhere sold this guy some.
you don’t enrich plutonium silly