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Californium is used to start up nuclear reactors.
Nuclear weapon material worth $72M seized in a car in Turkey
Police in northern Turkey’s northern Bolu province seize 18.1 grams of radioactive Californium, an element used in nuclear weapons and reactors. Five suspects reportedly being investigated over the incident.
by Dean Shmuel Elmas , Israel Hayom Staff, July 7, 2019:
Story continues below advertisementPolice in northern Turkey’s Bolu province seized $72 million worth of radioactive Californium, an element used in nuclear weapons and reactors, local authorities said Saturday.
Some 18.1 grams (0.638 ounces) of Californium was seized in a car by anti-smuggling and organized crime police. Five suspects were reportedly being investigated over the incident.
The substance was found stashed under the gear shifter wrapped in a bag. Officers had to cut the upholstery to get to the parcel, RT news reported.
The substance was taken to the Turkish Atomic Energy Authority for a detailed analysis.
Currently, the US and Russia are the only producers of Californium.
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41 Comments
4 years ago
I watched a TV show about 10 years ago where they were talking to a Russian admiral. He claimed around a hundred small (1to 2 kiloton,) back-packable, nuclear weapons went missing after the fall of the Iron Curtain. He also claimed a couple of much larger ones were missing too. I heard this admiral disappeared shortly after the interview. Have looked high and low but cannot find this interview.
If true, I wonder who has these nukes now?
4 years ago
Reply to
GonadTheRuffian
Russia used to supply small portable reactors as stand alone power supplies to people in remote rural areas. They have enough material in them to make a large dirty bomb but nobody knows how many of them ended up in the wrong hands or even where most of them are after the fall of the USSR.
4 years ago
Reply to
Trevor Fortune
The future on this planet promises to be very frightening, especially if the Death Cult gets their hands on such material. My guess is, its just a matter of time till a dirty bomb, actual nuclear blast, or biological attack occurs on one or more Western nations, given the lackadaisical response to domestic Islamic terrorism in these nations so far; especially, as in Canada’s, and Germanys case where they knowingly import ISIS terrorists.
4 years ago
Reply to
GonadTheRuffian
The Death Cult already has their hands on nukes — in Pakistain. I’m surprised the f’ing muslums haven’t detonated nuclear weapons somewhere in the dying atheist West or Israel yet but allah in good time.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Yes
– of the approx 200 world countries
– only about 20 are reasonably stable
– and with 180 tyrant governments
– trouble will persist indefinitely
– because tyrants are psychopaths
– and they are inherently prone to war
– because war is distracting, and it helps subjugation
– therefore, until we get rid of tyrants
– we will be prone to nuclear attack
4 years ago
Reply to
Trevor Fortune
Those devices are not nuke-capable
– they are just coffin-sized capsules with highly radioactive material inside
– that decays, and gives off heat
– the capsule has multiple thermocouples inside that convert heat into electricity
– so the things work but they are horribly inefficient, hot, and radioactive
– can’t be used to make bombs
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
You do know what a “dirty bomb” is don’t you? A non nuclear detonation that spreads radioactive material over a large area in case you don’t, so yes, these small reactors can be used in weapons.
4 years ago
Reply to
Trevor Fortune
True
– but not as nuclear weapons
– dirty bombs have limited lethality
– compared to nukes
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Dirty bombs are not meant to be lethal, they are meant to make an area unusable. Imagine a large one deployed in New York financial district or Washington itself. People would flee for miles around creating mayhem and destroying the financial position of the country. Probably more people would be killed in the panic than by the radiation.
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
That may be true, but the Iranians gave us EFDs thanks to all the graduates of American colleges. This material appears to be a neutron source that can be used to accelerate a fission process. Recall the Russian defector in Britain? Polonium is a terrible way to die. Not knowing what sort of dose this emits, would you like to find out that the guy standing next to you at a Memorial Day parade was carrying some? I would not! We have to think out side the box.
Read Jonathan T. Gilliam’s book “Sheep No More.”
4 years ago
Reply to
Rusty
I have made those warnings myself, in previous comments
– for many years
– the dangers are very real
– and not enough is being done to thwart those dangers
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
That may be true, but the Iranians gave us EFDs thanks to all the graduates of American colleges. This material appears to be a neutron source that can be used to accelerate a fission process. Recall the Russian defector in Britain? Polonium is a terrible way to die. Not knowing what sort of dose this emits, would you like to find out that the guy standing next to you at a Memorial Day parade was carrying some? I would not! We have to think out side the box.
Read Jonathan T. Gilliam’s book “Sheep No More.”
4 years ago
Reply to
GonadTheRuffian
Nukes degrade over time
– so they have to be maintained and upgraded to work
– therefore, even if the report is true
– the nukes are probably not usable anymore
– note also that the US also had/has small nukes
– search term: Davy Crockett nuke
– https://armyhistory.org/the-m28m29-davy-crockett-nuclear-weapon-system/
– and even nuclear 155 mm artillery shells
– Israel may also have small nukes, since they would make good bunker busters
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
I know about the small American nukes, including the Davy Crockett which was dangerous to those fired them due to its extremely short range. But the point is the Americans can account for their nukes but the Russians cannot.
Do you happen to know how long before these missing weapons become unusable?
4 years ago
Reply to
GonadTheRuffian
About 20 years
– but even the Russians try to maintain what they have
– so I don’t know if there is a good ‘degradation test sample’
– to measure the degradation process over multiple decades
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Russia’s Pearl Harbor 2.0 Asymmetrical War Plans, Gulftainer, Club-K, and EMP
https://1clickurls.com/acdVgyW
You did hear about Project Pelican?
https://1clickurls.com/KhMvx8u
https://1clickurls.com/8cC9sG1
Find out what Phil Haney has to say about James Clapper. Read the articles that Mary Fanning and Alan Jones have written. What do you think?
Oh, Gulftainer got another contract to operate the port at Wilmington, DE.
4 years ago
Reply to
Rusty
Oh yes, the tyrant countries will target the USA
– for sure
– and they will rely on ‘plausible deniability’
– regarding the source of the nuke attack
– just the way Iran did in the Gulf in the last few weeks
– where Iran did the the attacks, but Iran denies it
– and even Trump is not 100% sure that Iran did it
– that would also work in a nuke attack
– with nukes on Klubs hidden in containers, airliners, etc.
– Israel handles this problem with a clear warning:
– if WMD are used against Israel, Syria will disappear
– and probably Iran too, no questions asked
4 years ago
Reply to
GonadTheRuffian
If there was stolen nukes , we would of seen the handy work by now.
4 years ago
Reply to
tn_tea _ partyer_420
Its possible they may not have fallen into the wrong(Islamic) hands or they were hidden, or even quietly recovered. There is no way to know.
4 years ago
Reply to
GonadTheRuffian
If a Muslim had a suitcase nuke, Tel Aviv would be wasted. If Muslims had a nuke New York would of been leveled by now.
4 years ago
Was it Californium or Californium-252?
Californium-252 would require Type A Radioactive Transport Container. Rather large and bulky.
I plastic bag is not sufficient for transport.
Only Californium-252 could be used in a weapon. Other forms of Californium are used in various detectors.
4 years ago
Reply to
Phillip Marsh
Can Californium be refined down to Californium 252?
– for example, by centrifuge?
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Californium-249 is formed from the beta decay of berkelium-249, and most other californium isotopes are made by subjecting berkelium to intense neutron radiation in a nuclear reactor. … Californium-252 is a very strong neutron emitter, which makes it extremely radioactive and harmful.
4 years ago
Reply to
Phillip Marsh
Thanks!
– That makes the whole story suspicious
– because 252 would probably be present in any isotope mix
– and therefore, an inadequate container would be dangerous
– because the driver of the car
– would be bombarded by lethal radiation
– especially since the container was very close to the driver
– and the inverse square law would act strongly
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
No. A centrifuge is a device that spins at a high rate that allows particles to be separated out.
4 years ago
If Iran causes global warming would we even be able to tell? Not if we relied on the enemedia to warn us. Oh well! How much missing radioactive material will it take? I guess we’ll all find out eventually.
Eat, drink, pray.
I only hope the people who knew better and still did nothing ultimately pay.
They will. Come what may.
4 years ago
Someone is sleeping on the job … or the enemy has really stepped up *his* game.
4 years ago
Reply to
Dan Knight
I remember years ago a muslum from Soddy Barbaria was bragging about how he worked at San Onofre nuclear power plant. I never knew if he was lying or not.
4 years ago
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4 years ago
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4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Well I don’t know if he is or not, but we have let all too many Europeans – including the Russians – pass around nuclear technology like candy. Some of it has gotten around.
You and yours have a wonderful week/weekend M!
4 years ago
Israeli intel helped this incredible ‘find’ as well !!
…………………. Trump Team Still mopping up Obama and Biden’s MESS !!!
4 years ago
Californium?? Isn’t that the same as Homelessnium?
4 years ago
Anyone who truly believed the mad mullahs every stopped their uranium enrichment programs is hopelessly naive.
4 years ago
It’s dangerous to assume that only poor Hispanics are crossing our unsecured borders when something so small can render and entire city un inhabitable. But democrats need the votes.
4 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Californium#Applications
Only two sites produce californium-252: the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States, and the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors in Dimitrovgrad, Russia.
As of 2003, the two sites produce 0.25 grams and 0.025 grams of californium-252 per year, respectively.[56]
4 years ago
It’s the Russians!
4 years ago
How much of Russias nuclear stockpile can they no longer account for? But then maybe the Russians acquired the Californium thru Tricky hilly and slick willie –
4 years ago
How much of Russias nuclear stockpile can they no longer account for? But then maybe the Russians acquired the Californium thru Tricky hilly and slick willie –
4 years ago
Let us hope that it was not by an Islamist group.
