>15,000 grams, so that's 15,000/19=790 cubic centimeters. So, if it was 2 >feet long (24 inches, at 2.54 cm per inch, so 61 cm long), then the >cross-sectional area must be 790/61=13 cm^2. So, assuming it's a cylinder, >the radius would be slightly more than 2 cm, or a diameter of 4 cm (a >little over 1.5 inches). Yeah, that would be tough to fit under a seat. >(sarcasm)
You wouldn't be sarcastic for long with no shielding. You left shielding out in your eagerness to stuff it under the seat. Kirk -----Original Message----- From: Michael S Briggs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 5:37 PM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [biofuel] The BBC has been fooled by a CIA set up...NOT > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > OK, so what is the gamma fluence from a 15%U235 pencil 15 kilos and 2 or > so > > feet long? Remember effective half life decreases as sample increases > since > > U235 is neutron sensitive. Is 15% hot enough for a bomb or just a reactor? You wouldn't make a bomb with it still in 15% concentration, but there would be enough U-235 in there to make one (you just need to separate it out, which can be done with those centrifuges Saddam recently purchased). > > Since it fit under a car seat what is the max diameter? Allow for Uranium > > load and you are left with a cylinder how thick? Halve that for wall > > thickness. > > Also we saw it was free of mounting, just something stuffed under a seat. > It > > supposedly contained 15kilos of uranium. How many kilos can the Hulk slide > > under a seat? 100? so 85 kilos for lead in this case. How big would that > be? > > Lead is about 11.4 grams per CC--uranium 19grams or so dependent on > isotope > > ratio. What is the volume of 15 kilos of U? was long, not spherical. 15,000 grams, so that's 15,000/19=790 cubic centimeters. So, if it was 2 feet long (24 inches, at 2.54 cm per inch, so 61 cm long), then the cross-sectional area must be 790/61=13 cm^2. So, assuming it's a cylinder, the radius would be slightly more than 2 cm, or a diameter of 4 cm (a little over 1.5 inches). Yeah, that would be tough to fit under a seat. (sarcasm) > > What is total weight? You still believe? What, you ask some silly rhetorical questions, and that's supposed to constitute evidence that it was a fabrication? > > The arrested person was a valuable member to their movement. Not just any > > mule. > > A mad dog member perhaps but valuable to them. Do you put assets on > suicide > > runs or would you use a mule? Why was it a suicide run? > > Nope. Nice story but. . . > > > > And what does "you would like that" mean? My vested interest is the truth. > > Physics is the argument. I fail to see how the laws of physics give any indication that the story isn't exactly what happened, or at least what could have happened. Sure, it's mighty tempting to believe that everything the US government does is malicious. But there are countries far worse, and even though there are some ignorant and self-centered people in the US government, ours is still far and away the best form of government around. > > > Would 15 Kilograms of weapons grade uranium be put on show and be > > > photographed by journalists when the radiation from it would not only be > > > deadly but would fog photographic films and cause wonderful sparklies in > > > a > > > digital camera due to the radiation exiting the sensor and corrupting > > > the > > > memory, CMOS devices in all modern equipment are very susceptible to > > > radiation! The radiation from it would NOT be deadly, and would NOT significantly fog photographic film in the short amount of time it would be exposed to a relatively small x-ray source, at the distance photographers would be allowed to take photos from. Sure, if you brought the film very close it would expose it relatively quickly, but how likely is it that media personnel would be allowed to get close enough to it to snatch it? (yes, x-rays can travel a ways, but they would be travelling outwards in 4 pi radians (every which way), so the further away you are, the lower the density of x-rays, and considering it's a fairly small x-ray source to begin with....). > > > Why not ask an expert what would happen to anybody who was close to that > > > much enriched uranium!" Why didn't whoever wrote this ask an expert? Perhaps he knows a bit about nuclear physics, but if he does, it's clearly being clouded by an over-eagerness to believe that the US government lies about everything, and that everyone else in the world is friendly and would rather snuggle with kittens than kill the US infidels and find their way to heaven as a martyr? > > > Fissionables are not highly radioactive (nuclear reactors would not be > > > controllable if they were), and it is perfectly possible and safe to > > > stand at a reasonable distance from highly enriched uranium. Spontaneous > > > radioactivity is stronger in a lump of plutonium because of inevitable > > > contamination by a radioactive isotope of that metal, but even that > > > would be tolerable at a distance of a few meters. Exactly. Mike Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. 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