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It means having connections with the people who could produce it and being able to persuade them to give it to youOriginally Posted by Basil77
I heard about 25 million $, but it doesn't matter. But when you wrote "get", you meant "steal" or "buy"?You can't really talk about any meaningful prices when such materials are concerned. There is no free market for Polonium, is there?Either you can get it, or not.
And I heard that consuming such amount of polonium, wich left all this radiation around, causes instant death. It's high-radiative material! How a man can contact it without causing harm to his health??! Teapot (It's rather weird to drink tea directly from teapot, isn't it?
[quote:3edzbbto]From what I understand, it does not work like that -- one has to actually consume it, otherwise one does not even need gloves to handle it. And it appears that consuming it is exactly what he did (plus, they even found a teapot from which he's drunk his tea and all that).Sorry, but I couldn't hold youself from nit-picking.
Generally radiation pretty much never causes instant death -- check how people who were dealing with the catastrophe at Chernobyl died for example -- those who died immediately or within a few days did so from burns and injuries, not from radiation, iirc.
Polonium is an alpha source, and human skin is pretty much sufficient protection (and thin rubber gloves would make one totally safe). Which is exactly what makes it convenient for the purpose.
the levels of radiation in the teapot were rather high, meaning a contact with the primary source (i.e. the polonium itself) iirc.
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