Uranium Ore Video

A small sample of uranium. (SendMeToChernobyl.com)

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[Chenzel05]

So I'm assuming that Uranium ore isn't dangerous to be around if you just have it in that plastic cup there...and the fact that you can buy it on Amazon? I actually wanted to know this because I really wanted to buy a small sample of ore and was wondering how dangerous it is, I've tried to research this myself but it just leaves me with more questions

[stephendonnelly88]

The grade of Uranium Ore I have is only dangerous if you are stupid with it. I'm not going to get radiation burns just by holding it. Having said this, it is still highly radioactive and thus I keep it in a Lead "pig." It's not dangerous unless you sleep with it under your pillow, try to eat it, or inhale dust from it... :-)

[Thefirstspectra]

you need a 214 mr/hr beta-beta-gamma nuetron reading at u238 for 96 minutes to make plutonium

although people have been trying for years to get the stuff why not shoot electrons at niobium?

[stephendonnelly88]

While I am not very familar with the process of producing PU-239 from e- bombardment of Niobium, I would assume that it's lack of industrial popularity is probably due to it being less economically feasible. The entire "problem" of chemistry is finding new ways to do the same thing, but for less money. :-)

[peppoj]

If you don't have enough money to buy a huge turbine that "spins" out the U-235 for you, You could always do like they did in the "Manhattan project" and use a small membrane of polytetrafluoroethylene (Teflon) that only lets through the smaller U-235 for you to collect.

[stephendonnelly88]

Yeah, but to what end? I certainly have no intentions on creating a nuclear weapon or any sort. And, do to the incredibly small amount of U235 present in raw ores, I would have to obtain a great deal of ore (expensive) in order to even have enough U235 to put on display in a collection....

[stephendonnelly88]

You also need an appropriate vessel in which to do that conversion. Kinda expensive... ;-)

[stephendonnelly88]

Lol, wut?

[stephendonnelly88]

Tobernite is correct! BTW: If you know of good sources for Uranite......hook me up. I've got a small collection going, but decent uranite is hard to fine these days.. :-)

[TheCaptainLulz]

metatobernite id guess. just found some wicked pure urananite and its about half that.

[stephendonnelly88]

Nothing really. It's a scientific novelty..