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Re: Nuclear Weapons Material

To: ghio@chaos.bsu.edu (Matthew Ghio)
Subject: Re: Nuclear Weapons Material
From: khijol!erc@apple.com (Ed Carp [Sysadmin])
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 1994 20:54:05 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199408231658.LAA11167@chaos.bsu.edu> from "Matthew Ghio" at Aug 23, 94 11:58:48 am
Reply-To: ecarp@netcom.com
Sender: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com

> Polonium is primarilly an alpha emitter.  It would work as part of a
> neutron source, but it is not a particularily good choice because its
> half-life is only 138.4 days (polonium-210).  This makes it expensive
> to obtain, and impractical to store.

They used to use polonium in static eliminators in darkrooms - don't know 
if they use them anymore, though.
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References:
- Re: Nuclear Weapons Material
  - From: Matthew Ghio <ghio@chaos.bsu.edu>

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