On 7 Dec 2001, at 21:41, Steven Furlong wrote: > "!Dr. Joe Baptista" wrote: > > > > Russian police say they have arrested seven members of an organized > > crime gang after they tried to sell about one kilogram of uranium to > > undercover officers. > ... > > There is not much detail in the story. They failed to report what type of > > uranium it was - U-235? If anyone has more details on this please advise. > > Do illegal fissionable distributors do the same as illegal drug > distributors and cut the good stuff with (hopefully) inert filler? > > Probably if they can, but the question presupposes that there's such a thing as a "fissionables distributor". If it's more like some guy who somehow got ahold of some U and probably never will again, most likely he'd just try to sell what he had instead of trying to figure out how he could "cut" it and make multiple sales.
I believe that there are few enough black market fissionable sales that there's nothing like an established market, and that would-be salesmen wouldn't even know what kind of tests their cusomers are likely to demand to ensure the product is genuine. But this is pure speculation. George > -- > Steve Furlong, Computer Condottiere Have GNU, will travel
