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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (12 children)

Probably depends on how much they tried to import. 1mg is probably no big deal, but 1Mg would be.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Out of curiosity and for strictly not-remotely-nefarious reasons, how expensive would a megagram be?

I assume they just bought Ike, a centimeter cube of the stuff. (Which is a common thing for this kind of collector. Most solids come in centimeter cubes if they’re not particularly spicy.)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (8 children)

1Mg @ 19.8g/cc

1000000/19.8=50505cc

³√50505 = 37cm

So a little bigger than a cubic foot assuming you could prevent super-criticality somehow

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Cool, though I would assume the supercritical point would be a lot higher for Pu-242. I can't imagine that anyone would have knowingly sold this kid a fissile isotope.

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