Environment & Energy
In reply to the discussion: "There is more (weapons grade) material on civilian sites than all weapons stockpiles put together" [View all]Again the cadre of scientific "know-nothings" continue to hoist themselves on their own petards.
Curies and Bq are units of the rate of radioactive decay. It has precisely NOTHING to do with whether a material is weapons material or not. The know-nothings "think" ( term used loosely ) that the property that one wants for nuclear weapons material is radioactivity.
BALONEY!!! If that were the case, then some short-lived isotope like Iodine-131 would be weapons material.
The radioactive material that came out of Chernobyl that is being quoted is analogous to nuclear ash; that is material that has already had the nuclear energy extracted from it. Ash is NOT a fuel.
But the know-nothings love to trumpet their ignorance; so be it.
Those of us with scientific acumen can sit back and have a good laugh at them.
PamW