[extropy-chat] Nuclear batteries for hand-helds

[Mike Lorrey]

Look at it this way:
a) you can already buy americium components through electronic
component vendors
b) any end user product that would have one of these things in it would
cost a lot more money than the 5-20 microcuries is worth on the black
market. The labor to get this material out of the product would be even
more.
c) it is therefore much more cost effective to go get some on the black
market in bulk.

There is more of a hazard from people throwing them in landfills in
bulk quantities.


--- Adrian Tymes <wingcat at pacbell.net> wrote:

> I say again:
> 
> But try selling that to the luddite public who would
> want to ban this.
> 
> --- Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > For the same reason that terrorists don't try to do
> > the same thing with
> > smoke detectors or tritium exit signs, both products
> > which are widely
> > used and are found in most people's homes and
> > workplaces....
> > 
> > --- Adrian Tymes <wingcat at pacbell.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > Ah, but even if these are easily shielded, how to
> > > prevent people from cracking open the batteries,
> > > removing the radioactive bits, and concentrating
> > them
> > > into the warhead of a dirty nuclear bomb?
> > > 
> > > The members of this list know how ridiculous the
> > > chances of that are, and how minimal the threat
> > would
> > > be.  But try selling that to the luddite public
> > who
> > > would want to ban this.
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Mike Lorrey
Chairman, Free Town Land Development
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                         -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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