The separation of Uranium from Plutonium (7/8)

[chemosarefunny]

where does he get this stuff???

[katheryncruz24]

cool.

[DRAGOON009ify]

can you trigger uranium with a fire o somewhat like the principle of a firecracker?

[Dth091]

@DRAGOON009ify no, you can't

[domthebomhammer]

what if you drank dat?

[TheCrazyFinn]

@domthebomhammer You would be the incredible hulk!

[intercomsec]

Please guys remember that naturally occurring uranium compounds, minerals etc don't contain any plutonium. You need to start off with spent nuclear fuel.

[endimion17]

@intercomsec Yes, they do. Plutonium is present in the trace amounts in nature.

[BiggerThinking1]

Uranium and plutonium mixture in nitric acid and kerosene oil solution!

What the hell are humans doing!

[endimion17]

@BiggerThinking1 A typical douchebag ignorant comment. What do you think how was silicon for your computer made?

[BiggerThinking1]

@endimion17 stop ur lying fraudulence - silicone is not derived from nuclear decay you knob - its a naturally occurring element - one of the most abundant on earth - what do u think sand is you spannerhead?

[endimion17]

@BiggerThinking1 Silicon is made by using fluorine. I was merely trying to point out the sheer stupidity of your comment which was implying that kerosene and nitric acid are something dreadful and in the top list of the worse industrial processes.

Where's the problem with this separation? You understand that it's not done in the middle of a rainforest, in a clay jar, but shielded and controlled, posing absolutely no threat to anyone?

[endimion17]

@BiggerThinking1 And BTW sand is not silicon. Sand is silicon dioxide, and it takes a hell lot of energy to obtain silicon from it. Energy and fluorine.

[cheesynounou]

I need to know this in case of Nazi zombies

[ROBLOXDUDE1231]

NOW...blow it up lol

[LemoneyFishmas]

yummo

[khida123p]

i wonder how many terrorists are watching this

[NipSlipKnot]

@khida123p i would say about 82 of them!

[endimion17]

@khida123p Who cares? There are actually things called books. Books contain information like this, and many more. If you want to learn something, one minute Youtube clips aren't really the first choice.

[douro20]

The biggest problem with plutonium-uranium extraction isn't the radioactivity of the substances but their extreme toxicity.

[MrBeav62]

madness

[TiminPhoenix]

@MrDoeskie No, that would be Obama, in the White House, doing to this country and to the rest of the West what he's doing.

After that, it's a Hot Pocket...

[hot1cold0]

I'm scared

[DurexDurpaneu2]

The guy showing that vid is prolly dead now lol

[endimion17]

@DurexDurpaneu2 You're not the smartest cookie in a jar, are you?

[spartan1081990]

lol solutions are easy, im gonna get me some fire detectors

[DRAGOON009ify]

so uranium in the atom bomb is in liquid form?

[Luvm3less]

Interesting question.

Can anyone answer ?



[endimion17]

@DRAGOON009ify No, it's in its elemental form, which is metallic.

[endimion17]

@DRAGOON009ify How did you come to that conclusion watching this video? No, it isn't in a liquid form.

And this is not liquid uranium. It's a solution of an uranium salt. The same goes for plutonium.

[HDFPS]

poors man mountain dew!!!

[dclaver2]

This is how they make vault

[Are44441]

plutonium :D

[tatianaeduardo]

99.99 Giga watts! great Scot!!!!!!!!!!!

[tatianaeduardo]

99.99 Giga watts! great Scot!

[rebelgunnut]

i have been wanting to do the experiment for a while. im curious what the efficient of the process.

oh and ps the USA is making more plutonium. look on the job list for Los alamos National lab there hireing for plutonium prodution and exlposive engineering we might be getting new nuke bombs

[RainbowManification]

@rebelgunnut Not with the START treaty, but be used for tactical nukes though.

[GSmiami]

throw a lil lighter to the equation

[LazyGeneration5]

Chuck Norris has his plutonium with some radi-o's for breakfast.

[soberek]

I'm not a total dumbass, but strangely enough when I look at that liquid i think about having a sweet drink. Apart from the fact that after one sip I'd be dead in several minutes. To me it looks like a flavored soda, not one of the deadliest liquids known to man.

[endimion17]

@soberek There's nothing inside the funnel that would kill you in a few minutes if you took a sip of it.

The worse thing is nitric acid which could, depending on its concentration, corrode your insides. Neither are weak solutions of uranium or plutonium deadly in such short notice. They would only increase the risk of certain types of cancer. And kerosene would put you in a coma.

[inesis]

"A mixture of uranium and plutonium in kerosene oil" What a nice example of green chemistry !

[BPinard]

@inesis Maybe you need to rethink your definition of green.

[frohman101]

Gloveboxes are cool to work with at our university, but such a hindrance.

[omerta410]

hmmmm......nice drink for x-girlfriend.... with a few drops of lime and ice cubes!!!

[anothatech]

Not your everyday science project.

[pillowbugg]

Can you eat it?

[turborota]

hopefully those assholes will die of radiation poisoning before they become polititions

[Tharosa1942]

Is it Radioactive in aqueous form of Plutonium?

[byzzers]

@Tharosa1942 Yes. Radioactivity, which is determined by nuclear composition, is almost completely unaffected by chemistry, which deals mostly with inter-atom interactions in the atoms' electron clouds.

[Tharosa1942]

@byzzers

Man you got a huge IQ!

Are you a Chemist or someone looks like that?.

Man, My Life is Chemistry and Racing!

[jody4403363881]

@Tharosa1942 yes

[Tharosa1942]

@jody4403363881 Thats my man!

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Give your name and I'll send you a request

[anold130]

Uranium and Plutonium, are proved to have high risk of Radiation. Scientists espially the FBI believe this causes human fatality in death and world destruction. Wrong, it produces electricity for domestic use not for bomb making. There is no case prove human deaths are caused by radiation exposure. All Liars! Wacko Scientists.

[vmelkon]

Very nice. One day I would like to know how K and Na can be separated.

[PacoAIeman]

They sell it on eBay!

[rebelgunnut]

hydroxylamine is explosive????

[jeppewie1206]

this sounds like baking a cake... wtf? this is 0,000000000000000000000001% safe.

[soylentgreenb]

@jeppewie1206 there are still plutonium-powered pacemakers, some 30 years after they stopped making them. They don't use weapons-grade plutonium, i.e. plutonium-239, they use the much more intensly radioactive plutonium-238; the same isotope they use for RTGs in space probes.

[endimion17]

@jeppewie1206 Why would dilute solutions of uranium and plutonium be dangeorus, if operated in a glove box? Actually, neither the uranium or plutonium dilute solutions require bigass shield because the radioactivity is quite small. The glovebox is there primarily to prevent the scientist from poisoning with fumes of nitric acid and to avoid contamination of the samples. It is probably purged with some inert gas like argon.

This is extremely safe.

[Procharmo]

@endimion17 The reason it's in a glove box is the same reason they bolted lead shiled to the bottom of Chinook helicopters in Fukishima. Pu 239 and Pu 240 emit a lot of nasty stuff for a very long time!!!

[endimion17]

@Procharmo No, plutonium does not emit lots of gamma radiation. It emits very small ammounts of weak gamma rays. Primarily, it emits alpha rays. That is the reason why you could hold the bare metal in your hands without getting irradiated, although some gloves are advisable as it oxidizes to PuO2 in contact with water vapor. The oxide is then easier to get contaminated with, and you don't want a radiotoxic material on your skin.

[soylentgreenb]

@Procharmo A nuclide can only decay once before it becomes some other nuclide; plutonium can either be very radioactive and short-lived or not very radioactive and long-lived; it cannot be both.

The gamma power of 1 metric tonne of spent fuel with typical burn-up is 53 kW after 1 week. Pu-239 and Pu-240 are responsible for 1.7 mW and 5.7 mW respectively; i.e. the short-lived fission products are putting out 7 million times more gamma power, with more penetrating gammas to boot.

[soylentgreenb]

@Procharmo Alpha emitters like Pu-239 and Pu-240 are more radiotoxic than beta or gamma emitters for a given dose by about a factor 20, but alphas can't even penetrate dead skin. You would have to inhale, eat, inject or otherwise absorb plutonium into your body for it to be dangerous at all. Plutonium is extremely poorly absorbed from food and drink(about 1 part in 100 000), so the only meaningful routes of exposure are inhalation of respirable dust(<5 micron) and getting plutonium in wounds.

[Jh5kRadio]

Remember kids:

Plutonium is baaad for you...

Remember parents:

Keep dangerous liquids away from kids.

[6digit]

question , where can i get plutonium or source of plutonium ?

[MrRopedragon]

if you could get your hands on plutoniam that easily then terrorist groups could create weapons of mass destruction

[halohadel]

you can make it

[cefaloid]

@6digit you can grab nuclear bomb. But it's hard to do it :P

Seriously: some smoke sensors contains plutonium.

[dooki123]

@cefaloid actually most smoke detectors contain Americium 243, but meh

[rebelgunnut]

@dooki123 i though it was AM 241?

[dooki123]

@rebelgunnut yes, you're correct, i wasn't really thinking when i posted this :L

[JesusHChrist2000]

@6digit You can't.

[laserbam]

@6digit Actually, weapons grade plutonium is very hard to come by. Regular plutonium is not pure enough to make a good A-bomb. That's why you don't see millions of terrorists

[vmelkon]

@6digit unitednuclear sells depleted uranium. All you need is to bombard it with neutrons. U239 becomes Np239 which later becomes Pu239.

[heruursciences]

Mmmm tastes like grape Gatorade with a little extra special kick to it....

Seriously though, I hope those gloves don't leak LOL

[dukee155]

that shit can kill a whole town

[MDthornton83]

Yes. Not to mention plutonium is highly radio active. Very dangerous stuff.

[soylentgreenb]

@MDthornton83 Nah. Plutonium is tame stuff as far as radioactivity goes. It's almost all alphas, which means don't eat, don't inhale and you'll be fine. Even ingesting isn't too terrible since it is so poorly absorbed by the intestinal lining.

The early bomb cores were stabilized with a few percent of gallium and plated with a thin coating of nickel. They were routinely handled without protective clothing of any sort, not even gloves.

It's not cesium-137 or something, its' just plutonium.

[MDthornton83]

Well, either way, nobody should handle it without special equipment of sorts. That's why people wear protective radiation suits while handling plutonium.

[MikeBoyTV]

plutonium scares the shit out of me. I mean when I was taking the fire works powder out from fire works ( which is illegal and stupid, but I was lucky and it didn't blow up) and while doing that I was shaking my ass off. And if I poured plutonium........ I'd probably have a heart attack

[carlsaischa]

If you're standing behind a screen like the scientist in the video I'd rather be pouring the plutonium than meddling about with flash powder.

[idkWTFmySNis]

LOL man that wasfunny what u said.Yeah, dont play with fireworks stupidly just light it and run, and enjoy :D

[tribbleq]

@umahuma4

Nuka Cola Quantum

=]

[spizec]

@tribbleq HAHA THIS ISN'T FALLOUT3 FOOL...

[ihatespam1977]

Don't try this at home. If the right amount plutonium solution gets poured into a container thats the wrong shape or made of the wrong material it could go critical and give a fatal dose of radiation.

[dukee155]

@ihatespam1977 what shape does it have to be

[soylentgreenb]

@ihatespam1977 Early bomb designers determined the critical mass of plutonium by hand; by stacking neutron-reflecting bricks of some material around the plutonium sphere(actually two half-spheres) until they approached very near criticality. It was charmingly refered to as "tickling the dragon's tail".

[tribbleq]

Is this guy separating these two elements so that they can re-use it as a nuclear fuel? Is that what he's said?

[umahuma4]

@tribbleq

preety much

[tribbleq]

@umahuma4

Unfortunately this can only be done to so much an extent, otherwise we wouldn't have nuclear waste hanging around, and we could literally run a reactor for an infinite amoutn of time as long as we had the materials to keep the parts of it functioning.

[soylentgreenb]

@tribbleq The reason nuclear waste isn't being reprocessed in the US has very little to do with ability. There's obstruction from greenie weenies and people who pretend to be interested in limiting proliferation(reactor grade plutonium is terrible bomb material and the US already has nukes, so this excuse is obviously phoney). There's also the issue that fast-breeders just don't make economic sense with uranium as cheap as it is right now.

[manladyyasser]

IMMA CREATIN DA BOMB!!

haha just a bit of senseless humor.

[Thefirstspectra]

if you commented check out Carl Willis Nuclear Material web site kicks ass on the subject

[Thefirstspectra]

Looks like Mountain Dew

[wingnut4427]

@Thefirstspectra didn't you know ? That's how they make Mountain Dew !

[whoopla1095]

@Thefirstspectra IF your unprotected in that room with that moutian dew youll be dead inna few days dude. Its pretty freaking sick tho. in a good way

[april76301]

@whoopla1095 not few days in 1 hour plutonium uranium os radio active notice how they keep it in led cases?

[soylentgreenb]

@april76301 Plutonium is not stored in lead cases. Plutonium pits are stored in mild steel drums(ALR8), containing a supporting mechanism and a backfill of inert gas. Weaponsgrade plutonium is an alpha emitter with some associated weak gammas.

Don't eat or inhale plutonium and you'll be fine(and even eating it isn't nearly as dangerous as inhaling it. The gastrointestinal tract absorbs only 0.01% of plutonium in SOLUBLE form; about 10 000 times less dangeorus than inhalation)

[april76301]

@soylentgreenb lol it took 4 months for you too look that up XD

[jarrodmaddy]

@Thefirstspectra but more dangerous.

[rhinogek]

@Thefirstspectra this is how they make mountain dew

[mojosmadness1]

how did u even get it lol

[xrockthe40ozx]

NOW I CAN RULE THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!

[iInstaFall]

if you drank plutonium your back would bend inward into your gut and turn you inside out.

[DAT23MAN]

@iInstaFall lol for real??

[Pivoteer24]

@iInstaFall

You'd get cancer, too.

[Aethren]

@iInstaFall Chuck Norris drinks plutonium solutions with whiskey, and pisses out rocket fuel.

[jody4403363881]

@iInstaFall Why?

[april76301]

@iInstaFall no you would time travel too what ever time and place you want omg i killed president lincoln O_o

[SJARIZONAa]

@iInstaFall how'd u know?

[ChicagoCubs1060]

@iInstaFall you'd implode? but how just from drinking it? wouldn't there have to be a nuclear chain reaction for that to happen...? i don't see how drinking plutonium would do that, i could see dying from radiation or poisoning..

[soylentgreenb]

@ChicagoCubs1060 1) you wouldn't implode.

2) nuclear explosions don't spontaneously cause implosions any more than chemical explosives do. An implosion is used in a nuclear weapons to make the plutonium go critical. If you compress the plutonium pit by a factor of 2 in height, width and depth its radius is reduced by a factor 2(distance a neutron has to travel to escape the pit is halved), but its density increases by a factor 8(mean free path of a neutron is cut to 1/8 of normal).

[klikak]

@iInstaFall

no your wrong if you drank plutonium you would have turned into superman

[Thefirstspectra]

Does anyone have more information on this method or the complete video?thanks

[rsty615]

Check out the PUREX process.

[Thefirstspectra]

whats that used for?

[alpacks]

it is simple, the mixture uranium and plutonium is dissolves has acid and the difference of specific gravity makes that they become very easy has separate, then they not much are by another chemical reaction, or by electrolysis to acquire the 2 metals under pure and metallic form

afterwards you makes that you wants it, but check plutonium in general one by way of nuclear weapon and a bit by MOX this new type of fuel for nuclear power station, but check + often this serves for nuclear heads

[quirty1]

bombs

[rsty615]

It's not just kerosene, it's tri-n-butyl phosphate that extracts the U(VI).

[rebelgunnut]

@rsty615 how would a chiropractor know the processe of reprocssesing? and what other chemicals are in the processe?

[xpidgeonx]

That Plutonium looks tasty haha I wanna drink some!

[yoyoadriankingofgame]

it makes you glow for a few minutes in the dark but then you die, (you still glow)

[xpidgeonx]

Oh God you're right I'm glowing!!! Still glowing...this is cool!!......Wait.....Uuuuaaggh­hhHHH! (still glowing)

[yoyoadriankingofgame]

haha

[cris750]

Evolutionary Economic flow: Barter system -> Natural resources system -> Metals / Bronze system -> Paper and credit system (Capitalist system). Now, Karl Marx theorized one of 3 directions and it was this system evolving into a "classless" system. My branch of evolution is different and in the middle. Capital flow to the people between state and corporations. Look at my statement on the "orgami butterfly" vid.

[cris750]

Nikolai Voznesensky, a 34 year old Soviet officer during Stalin's era, wrote a 800 page treatise called: ' The War Economy of the USSR ' also Stalin himself wrote - ' Economic problems of Socialism ' this is my evidence that Communism of the Soviet Union was actually NATIONAL COMMUNISM not pure Marxism.

[cris750]

My new economic philosophy seperates three things: State/People/business entities but they are still together like this presentation. The current (National) Capitalism model keeps everything mixed up with a war incentive. Once any state experience war spending it becomes part of this ongoing economic bubble called - War production. My new economic model preserves the actors but it would diminish a need for war 'bubble' to salvage an economy from an economic depression.

[cris750]

OK, I could not find any vid for my presentation but probably this is a good one.

[kensei85]

That sure was a sinister way he said "plutonium" at the end... Can someone please send the CIA to search his lab- I think he has WMDs!

[dannes22]

if he have plotunium he is most probobly working for the gonverment sence you need a nuclear reactor to make the stuff from 238U. Heavy stuff.