Bob Lazaar Owns Co. That Sells The Russian Radioactive Killer Poison?!

WTF?

Yes, Bob Lazaar owns 'United Nuclear'! Okay this is BAZAAR.

"A number of stories have been circulating about United Nuclear, a company in Albuquerque, N.M., which sells Polonium-210, the radioactive material that was used to poison ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko — “for just $69, plus postage and packing” The Australian warned today.

The missing detail is that it’s perfectly harmless and legal.

At least the Register in Britain — which hollered in a cheeky piece yesterday, “Deadly polonium-210 only $69!” — noted, at the very end, almost parenthetically, that “yes, we know the amount in the United Nuclear sample probably wouldn’t kill anyone.”

He notes, for instance, that the Polonium-210 sold by United Nuclear is encased in inert disks that would have to be cracked open to even get at it — and even then the amount is so small, it’s negligible. He also pointed out that the material has been used over the years in a variety of everyday objects — from static-neutralizing brushes to spark plugs."

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Polonium-210 serves a lot of purposes in biological research. I personally have used to to create radiolabled markers for reporter genes and nucleotide markers. Of course it's available, just like the neurotoxin polyacrylamide. Highly deadly, but highly useful.

~Mariella