Emmanuel Lidden, 24, to learn fate after breaching nuclear non-proliferation laws by shipping samples of radioactive material to parents’ suburban home
Thank god appropriate resources are being dedicated to punishing this guy properly. Can you imagine the absolute mayhem he could unleash if eh managed to collect all the elements? /s
I mean this isn’t someone trying to import in nickel or any other element. He was shipping highly radioactive and toxic material around. It’s typically frowned on to expose people to radiation for the sake of you completing a collection.
Not an urban myth, but a combination of slightly incorrect and very out of date. “Ionisation” smoke alarms typically contain Americium-241, which is radioactive just like uranium is (that’s the slightly incorrect).
But ionisation smoke alarms are illegal to install in Queensland (probably other states too, I just didn’t check), and haven’t been recommended since at least 2006 (that’s the very out of date). Instead, these days, smoke alarms are typically photoelectric.
Thank god appropriate resources are being dedicated to punishing this guy properly. Can you imagine the absolute mayhem he could unleash if eh managed to collect all the elements? /s
Pretty sure I watched a show as a kid where someone collected all the elements and then used them to take down the evil ruler.
Maybe Emmanuel Lidden is the Avatar?
I think you mean Captain Planet.
I mean this isn’t someone trying to import in nickel or any other element. He was shipping highly radioactive and toxic material around. It’s typically frowned on to expose people to radiation for the sake of you completing a collection.
Don’t we all have a teeny bit of uranium in our homes in smoke detectors? Or was that some urban myth I’m remembering?
Not an urban myth, but a combination of slightly incorrect and very out of date. “Ionisation” smoke alarms typically contain Americium-241, which is radioactive just like uranium is (that’s the slightly incorrect).
But ionisation smoke alarms are illegal to install in Queensland (probably other states too, I just didn’t check), and haven’t been recommended since at least 2006 (that’s the very out of date). Instead, these days, smoke alarms are typically photoelectric.
Blah blah blah
We have bigger problems to deal with than this guy.