Is it true you can not buy plutonium now without giving a signature?

Question

After all they do not just hand it out to anyone who wants to prove E=MC2

Answer 1

No you can get it from Boots pharmacy without a prescription, but only in small quantities and you must take your own lead container.

Answer 2

I answered a related question about this which you might find interesting (I got best answer there) with regard to terrorists planning weapons of mass destruction attack against US homeland

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070717120014AAPALa1&pa=FZB6NXXtFWMW0cLWwuIe9_H4ixpIYOsH4q5DyQM_TQF.ON15Ju0-&paid=add_watch

the part of that question which will help you with your interest is

GAO just came out with a report showing how anyone in America can buy the materials needed to make a dirty bomb & testified to Congress about it.

For example ... they request permission from NRC to buy something quite inoculuus, and get the paperwork approving that, then can do white-out and change the form to show something quite serious, then get that, and the NRC has no follow-up or coding system to prevent this, like different approval codes depending on seriousness of what is being purchased.

A dirty bomb is where there is a conventional explosive like those recently used in London and Glasgow, but instead of sending burning gasoline, nails, ball bearings, etc. in all directions to maim anyone within a block or so of the explosion, the "payload" is radioactive materials, so as to mess up everything within a 20 block radius, of each such attack.

Here's links to GAO info on NRC incompetence.

Nuclear Security: Actions Taken by NRC to Strengthen Its Licensing Process for Sealed Radioactive Sources Are Not Effective, by Gregory D. Kutz and John W. Cooney of GAO's forensic audits and special investigations unit; and Gene Aloise of GAO's natural resources and environment team, before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Senate Commiteee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. GAO-07-1038T, July 12.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?gao-07...
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d071038thi...

GAO is General Accountability Office which does investigations on behalf of Congress ... it is a royal shame that Congress does not do a better job of acting on what the GAO finds out.

Answer 3

Great Scott! How the hell am I going to power my flux capacitor now? The crap I find on layaway just doesn't have the same quality, who knows what year I'll end up?

Answer 4

Not if you get it off ebay. lol