uranium smugglers
How three naive Chinese men brought uranium into the country
The scrap merchants were on a trip to Kyrgyzstan and found this neat, 600-lb. rock with a little glitter in it, suggesting gold in there somewhere, and brought it home to Xinjiang, in the boonies. They're noticing that, when the lights are off at night, the rock . . well . . stays on. So one guy chipped a piece off and took it all the way to Beijing for an assessment, and, yeah, it's "depleted uranium." Initial reaction: Huh? WTF? Bonus: It's illegal, and you're under arrest for smuggling it in, but finally the prosecutor dropped the charge. "To date, the three [men] had shown no 'physical abnormalities'." The Times (London)
The scrap merchants were on a trip to Kyrgyzstan and found this neat, 600-lb. rock with a little glitter in it, suggesting gold in there somewhere, and brought it home to Xinjiang, in the boonies. They're noticing that, when the lights are off at night, the rock . . well . . stays on. So one guy chipped a piece off and took it all the way to Beijing for an assessment, and, yeah, it's "depleted uranium." Initial reaction: Huh? WTF? Bonus: It's illegal, and you're under arrest for smuggling it in, but finally the prosecutor dropped the charge. "To date, the three [men] had shown no 'physical abnormalities'." The Times (London)
Comments
Luckily, according to Stan Lee's Laws of Genetic Reaction to Radiation, these guys will be fine, although laws of balance dictate that one of them is likely to become a hero and the other a villain.
Two Stan Lee radiation gags in one week? Thanks, Weird Universe!
Two Stan Lee radiation gags in one week? Thanks, Weird Universe!
Posted by kingmonkey in Athens, Ontario on 09/10/08 at 12:56 PM
U238? U235? Pu239? Please -- no more math stories!
Posted by BikerPuppy on 09/11/08 at 03:33 PM
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