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Was a Yakuza member trafficking nuclear cakes on your 2024 bingo card?
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Was a Yakuza member trafficking nuclear cakes on your 2024 bingo card?

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Feb 21, 2024, 9:11 PM
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CC-2 told UC-1 that CC-1 had available more than 2,000 kilograms of Thorium-232 and more than 100 kilograms of uranium in the compound U3O8 — referring to a compound of uranium commonly found in the uranium concentrate powder known as “yellowcake” — and that CC-1 could produce as much as five tons of nuclear materials in Burma. CC-2 also advised that CC-1 had provided samples of the uranium and thorium, which CC-2 was prepared to show to UC-1’s purported buyers. CC-2 noted that the samples should be packed “to contain . . . the radiation.”

About one week later, EBISAWA, CC-2, and CC-3 participated in a series of meetings with UC-1 and CS-1 in Southeast Asia, to discuss their ongoing weapons, narcotics, and nuclear materials transactions. During one of these meetings, CC-2 asked UC-1 to meet in CC-2’s hotel room. Inside the room, CC-2 showed UC-1 two plastic containers each holding a powdery yellow substance (the “Nuclear Samples”), which CC-2 described as “yellowcake.” CC-2 advised that one container held a sample of uranium in the compound U3O8, and the other container held Thorium-232. UC-1 photographed and video-recorded the Nuclear Samples, images of which are shown below:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/us-attorney-announces-nuclear-materials-trafficking-charges-against-japanese-yakuza

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My first teaching job back in 1988 I went in the prep/chemical storage room

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Feb 22, 2024, 6:45 AM
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and found all kinds of scary things. The most being a small lead box containing a vial of triuranium octoxide.

Interestingly, it’s not yellow. It was in a crate with a civil defense gieger counter that was apparently provided to schools during the 50s . It’s a wonder that cleaning out that room hasn’t caused me all sorts of horrible maladies


(I replaced the teacher who had been there for 37 years and died over spring break the year before. Only science teacher at the school since it had been built)

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“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” Isaac Asimov
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Rads used to be so much fun


Feb 22, 2024, 10:21 AM
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There is nothing worse than wondering if whatever ache or pain you experience was a result of some exposure like you might have had.
I also think you are allowed so many free passes in a lifetime.

Back in the day they used radium for all kinds of stuff, as a health tonic, in dinner plates, etc. The Radium Girls who painted watch dials during WW1 made a lot of money for their work but paid a hefty price.

I thought changing out tanks of chlorine gas at the pool at age 18 was dicey.

https://www.artpublikamag.com/post/how-the-story-of-the-radium-girls-made-its-way-into-pop-culture-facts-fiction-and-film

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