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1369319 No.1369319 [Reply] [Original]

Why is Uranium illegal to posses?
Is it legal in Nigeria?
Are other heavier elements, in terms of atomic number, also often illegal?

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>> No.1369333

Uranium is completely legal to possess in the U.S.

http://unitednuclear.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=2_4

>> No.1369339

>>1369333
Not enriched uranium.

Not talking about depleted

>> No.1369355

>not enriched
>not depleted

so you mean uranium cake

>> No.1369364

>>1369355
In response to his post, which stated it's legal, I responded 'not enriched'

then I reinforced my statement by saying, I'm not talking about depleted Uranium, which is the kind he suggested

>> No.1369366

>>1369355
not op but i'll do it.
"enriched uranium is not legal to possess in america, while depleted is. my question was not intended to refer to depleted legal uranium, but the illegal enriched uranium that was the whole point of the question in the first place, fucktard"

>> No.1369367

>>1369339
>thinks uranium comes out of the ground already enriched.

>> No.1369371

>>1369367
>thinks uranium from the ground comes depleted

>> No.1369379

>>1369366
>>1369364
It's legal to posses un-enriched, un-depleted uranium; i.e. unprocessed uranium, as it comes out of the ground.

>> No.1369395

>>1369379
uranium cake though? that's just nonsense.

>> No.1369396

When I was 14 (in 2002) my family went on a vacation to hawaii. This was pretty soon after september 11th and flights were extremely cheap and my dad had made bank shorting the market when they reopened trading so we were flying somewhere almost every month. When I found out that the plane we were in was a 747-100 I told my sister, who was sitting next to me, that there was likely hundreds of pounds of uranium in the tail section.

Someone overheard and the story very quickly spread around the plane and people started freaking out. I ended up having to explain to the flight attendant and then up in the cockpit to the pilot+copilot that depleted uranium is used as a counterbalance in some planes because it is the densest material that isn't extremely expensive. If we weren't over halfway there they would have turned the plane around.

>> No.1369401

>>1369396
You said that story earlier in the uranium thread where the guy said he had Uranium and posted pictures of europium and tungsten and shit.

Either copy and pasta or...

>> No.1369429

you mine uranium from uranium containing minerals in the ground.

when you refine it - you get pure uranium. It's called Uranium Cake.

When you ENRICH this cake: it splits it into the various isotopes of uranium.
From it you get a small amount of enriched uranium which can be used in other nuclear processes, and a lot of depleted uranium which is basically a byproduct.

>> No.1369558

Hey OP, you can probably put all the elements in this list under 'illegal to possess'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_mass#Critical_mass_of_a_bare_sphere