British plant can't account for almost 30 kilos of plutonium but not worried

[whatthe]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...tain_plutonium

The amount of material listed as missing at the Sellafield plant in northwestern England was "within international standards of expected measurement accuracies for closing a nuclear material balance at the type of facility concerned," the authority said.

Willing to risk your family's life on an accounting error? With this stuff there shouldn't be any inaccuracy.

That darn Tibor.

[rcgreen]

I used to work in the automobile repair business, and I can tell you,
that if you misplaced 30 kilos of used motor oil your ass would
be in a sling. I guess it pays to have friends in high places.

[scoobydrew0]

30 kilos, not worried at all. Now if it was 35 then I would be worried.

if you misplaced 30 kilos of used motor oil your ass would be in a sling

I work in a chair factory making casino chairs. If you miscount the chairs by 3, it's better to put in your 2 week notice.

[!mitationRust]

Yeah and I bet Moscow can't account for a couple metric tons of weapons grade plutonium, including a couple suitcase nukes, a slew of stolen hafnium, cadmium and boron cooling rods and the like. It's a beautiful world! Iran with its nuclear ambitions, it makes me sick.

[RoadClosed]

30 Kilos of motor oil and 30 kilos of plutonium aren't the same. One Gallon of Uranium wieghts 152 pounds or so (depending on the isotope). 1 kilo is 2.2 pounds. So 30 kilos of something is 66 pounds (2.2 x 30). I guess they lost less than half a gallon "on paper"?? 30 kilos of motor oil is... I would have to weigh a quart and see. wait I have google!! The shipping weight of SAE 10w-30 is 2.1 pounds. Let's just call it 1 quart for each kilo so that would be 30 quarts approx. Do the gallon conversion and 30 kilos of motor oil is: 7.5 gallons. 15 times the amount of the same weight in Unranium. Yes I had wayyyyyyy to much coffee today.

[nihil]

Hmmmmmmmmmmm?

30 Kilos of weapons grade plutonium? how would you actually move it?........like Sellafield isn't a MacDonalds, so there are no little bags or styrofoam boxes

Also, those radiation detectors, that would scream blue murder if you got anywhere near?

Remember that this is a fast breeder reactor, so works on CALCULATED as well as MEASURED yields?..............naturally one might expect a small difference between the two. This seems like typical "gutter press journalism"............there were no percentages, just a raw value?

It reminds me of a guy I know who bought 200 tea-bags from a supermarket............he counted only 199 in the box, so he took it back?

To me, anything in the media that patently does not have a scientific basis is pure FUD. Hey there is a 2% stock loss in French Brandy production.............I deny everything

just my £ 0.02 (+/- 30Kg )

[jm459]

Originally posted here by whatthe
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...tain_plutonium



Willing to risk your family's life on an accounting error? With this stuff there shouldn't be any inaccuracy.

That darn Tibor.

Don't you have any stories, national and/or local in Canada that are newsworthy?

[!mitationRust]

Originally posted here by jm459
Don't you have any stories, national and/or local in Canada that are newsworthy?

I'll answer this! Perchance it's a humdrum society up there? News from Canada is like news out of Kyrgyzstan, it’s irrelevant to most Americans. In other words we're a rock star society they are not.