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LittleDipster


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Dealers Caught Allegedly Selling 90 Ecstasy Tabs Along With 2.2 Pounds Of Uranium
#19190382 - 11/26/13 04:00 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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http://www.businessinsider.com/deals-caught-slinging-ecstasy-and-uranium-2013-11
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Military & Defense More: Defense Military Bomb Uranium Dealers Caught Allegedly Selling 90 Ecstasy Tabs Along With 2.2 Pounds Of Uranium Amanda Macias Nov. 25, 2013, 4:27 PM 1,884 4
Rodger Bosch/AFP
South African officials seized 2.2 pounds of uranium and 90 ecstasy tablets from two men allegedly trying to sell the items in the city of Durban, reports AFP.
Uranium serves as a crucial component in the construction of a "dirty bomb" also known as a radiological weapon. This type of explosive threatens with a blast as well as airborne radiation and contamination.
South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (NECSA) confirmed the substance was un-enriched uranium, and added that it most likely came from a country outside of Africa.
“Yes it is uranium and the tests suggest that it must have come from a country that is dealing with some uranium enrichment at the moment, very very unlikely (in) Africa,” NECSA spokesman Elliot Mulane told AFP.
The uranium is 0.38 percent made up of the U-235 isotope and is well below the average 0.7 percent of the U-235 found in natural uranium. Uranium would need to be at a 90% level in order to be considered weapons grade.
International atomic bodies were informed of the seizure and investigations will include countries involved with uranium enrichment like China, Iran, Japan, North Korea and the United States.
Mozambican Sasa Esmael Vulay, 23, and Sibusiso Solomon Mkhize, a 24-year-old South African, will remain in custody until December 3rd.
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Re: Dealers Caught Allegedly Selling 90 Ecstasy Tabs Along With 2.2 Pounds Of Uranium [Re: LittleDipster]
#19190520 - 11/26/13 05:14 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I know Amazon sells uranium in a can :p I think it's even cheap!
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Re: Dealers Caught Allegedly Selling 90 Ecstasy Tabs Along With 2.2 Pounds Of Uranium [Re: LittleDipster] 2
#19190523 - 11/26/13 05:17 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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It is below the average uranium content of naturally occurring uraninite yet they think it came from a country that enriched it? Sound like someone hit the reverse button on their centrifuges.
Although this is a pretty good combo in terms of a sales line:
"Hey dude. You can buy these pills, they are da bomb. Or you can buy this uranium and make it da bomb!"
Edited by Smushroom (11/26/13 05:18 AM)
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LittleDipster


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Re: Dealers Caught Allegedly Selling 90 Ecstasy Tabs Along With 2.2 Pounds Of Uranium [Re: Smushroom]
#19190525 - 11/26/13 05:25 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Smushroom said: It is below the average uranium content of naturally occurring uraninite yet they think it came from a country that enriched it? Sound like someone hit the reverse button on their centrifuges.
Although this is a pretty good combo in terms of a sales line:
"Hey dude. You can buy these pills, they are da bomb. Or you can buy this uranium and make it da bomb!"
Yeah I'm wondering why they think it came from a country that enriched it if it's not enriched uranium? Or what someone was even going to do with it..
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Re: Dealers Caught Allegedly Selling 90 Ecstasy Tabs Along With 2.2 Pounds Of Uranium [Re: Smushroom]
#19190547 - 11/26/13 05:55 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Smushroom said: It is below the average uranium content of naturally occurring uraninite yet they think it came from a country that enriched it? Sound like someone hit the reverse button on their centrifuges.
Although this is a pretty good combo in terms of a sales line:
"Hey dude. You can buy these pills, they are da bomb. Or you can buy this uranium and make it da bomb!"
Haha. But yeah I don't think the reporters know what they are talking about.
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Re: Dealers Caught Allegedly Selling 90 Ecstasy Tabs Along With 2.2 Pounds Of Uranium [Re: Cyclohexylamine]
#19190805 - 11/26/13 08:07 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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tymoteusz3 said:
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Smushroom said: It is below the average uranium content of naturally occurring uraninite yet they think it came from a country that enriched it? Sound like someone hit the reverse button on their centrifuges.
Although this is a pretty good combo in terms of a sales line:
"Hey dude. You can buy these pills, they are da bomb. Or you can buy this uranium and make it da bomb!"
Haha. But yeah I don't think the reporters know what they are talking about.
Most of the stories I read anymore are error filled. I think it has to do with no tv watching. Its like I woke up from a coma and can understand when I'm being decieved, which is all the time by the news and tv.
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Re: Dealers Caught Allegedly Selling 90 Ecstasy Tabs Along With 2.2 Pounds Of Uranium [Re: Ellis Dee] 1
#19190814 - 11/26/13 08:12 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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could be that it is left over waste from enriching, hence the less than natural amount of U235
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Re: Dealers Caught Allegedly Selling 90 Ecstasy Tabs Along With 2.2 Pounds Of Uranium [Re: Ellis Dee]
#19190833 - 11/26/13 08:19 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Ellis Dee said:
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tymoteusz3 said:
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Smushroom said: It is below the average uranium content of naturally occurring uraninite yet they think it came from a country that enriched it? Sound like someone hit the reverse button on their centrifuges.
Although this is a pretty good combo in terms of a sales line:
"Hey dude. You can buy these pills, they are da bomb. Or you can buy this uranium and make it da bomb!"
Haha. But yeah I don't think the reporters know what they are talking about.
Most of the stories I read anymore are error filled. I think it has to do with no tv watching. Its like I woke up from a coma and can understand when I'm being decieved, which is all the time by the news and tv.
That is true.
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Re: Dealers Caught Allegedly Selling 90 Ecstasy Tabs Along With 2.2 Pounds Of Uranium [Re: Cyclohexylamine]
#19190866 - 11/26/13 08:30 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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who cares about the uranium? I'm more interested in what the purity of the Ecstasy tabs. I may go on vacation to Africa someday, and I won't dropping any U!
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Re: Dealers Caught Allegedly Selling 90 Ecstasy Tabs Along With 2.2 Pounds Of Uranium [Re: longhair_Bri]
#19190955 - 11/26/13 09:08 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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longhair_Bri said: who cares about the uranium? I'm more interested in what the purity of the Ecstasy tabs. I may go on vacation to Africa someday, and I won't dropping any U!
It's not as though you'd get the same batch anyways. If you go to Africa you got to try the brown brown.
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Re: Dealers Caught Allegedly Selling 90 Ecstasy Tabs Along With 2.2 Pounds Of Uranium [Re: distroburner]
#19190956 - 11/26/13 09:09 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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distroburner said: could be that it is left over waste from enriching, hence the less than natural amount of U235
Correct, it probably had some U235 removed by centrifuge.
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Re: Dealers Caught Allegedly Selling 90 Ecstasy Tabs Along With 2.2 Pounds Of Uranium [Re: longhair_Bri]
#19190960 - 11/26/13 09:09 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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They got caught with DEPLETED Uranium. Any uranium containing less than the natural sources of isotope U-235 is depleted.
Maybe they obtained it from abandoned american arms?
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Re: Dealers Caught Allegedly Selling 90 Ecstasy Tabs Along With 2.2 Pounds Of Uranium [Re: EdibleStereos]
#19191431 - 11/26/13 11:07 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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EdibleStereos said: Maybe they obtained it from abandoned american arms?
Unlikely. It's also unlikely that possessing that grade of uranium is even illegal. You can buy different grades of uranium on the Internet, that's probably what these guys did. That, or they stole it from one of the many depleted uranium dumps around the world. I know that there's a buried depleted uranium dump approximately 10 miles from my home. A few years ago they had some issues with leakage and there were Geiger counters all over the place just in case the leakage got bad. Thankfully, the dump was dug up and they re-encased it. Good thing, too, because it's dangerously close to an ovoideocystidiata spot that I enjoy yearly.
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Re: Dealers Caught Allegedly Selling 90 Ecstasy Tabs Along With 2.2 Pounds Of Uranium [Re: mylfgur]
#19193957 - 11/26/13 08:14 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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dirty bombs are all over
they aren't massively terrible but they can depopulate a large area
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Re: Dealers Caught Allegedly Selling 90 Ecstasy Tabs Along With 2.2 Pounds Of Uranium [Re: Konyap]
#19198835 - 11/27/13 11:45 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I really do not understand this at all. How does shitty uranium and a relatively small amount of ecstasy even fall into the same hands at the same time? What, was some guy like "Hey, you got some uranium...what other illegal substances you got laying around? Ecstasy eh...meh, toss that in there, what the hell."
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Re: Dealers Caught Allegedly Selling 90 Ecstasy Tabs Along With 2.2 Pounds Of Uranium [Re: bloodsheen]
#19198880 - 11/28/13 12:06 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Good point.
I wish I had an answer to your question, but I don't. It is probably best to try to contact the guys directly for the real story.
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