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I wonder where one can even order plutonium online? I am aware of legal way to buy some uranium, but that's within US only.

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This claims to have plutonium https://engineeredlabs.com/products/plutonium-element-cube-t.... Although other studies of trinitite have failed to find any.

It also appears that the soviets used plutonium in fire detectors, and that people were selling these sources at one point https://www.luciteria.com/element-cubes/plutonium-for-sale

you could buy the ones with Americium in most of the EU and US too. I think you can still find some, here and there.

You can still buy Americium detectors.

They're more reliable because they don't stop working when a little dust gets in them like optical sensors.

Putting uranium under some neutron flux one can probably cook some plutonium on the kitchen table (and bury the whole kitchen or even the whole house deep underground after that :)

lol someones about to knock knock at ur door.

Talk about perfect setup for a knock knock joke.

Tik, tik, tik.

- Who’s there?

- Geiger counter.

Obviously neutrons should be made illegal. Neutron flux sources are perhaps not so simple to acquire or build.

I was going to guess United Nuclear myself but that was the uranium supplier ;)

Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/elementcollection/comments/mf5v0u/i...) says that you were able to get some here: https://www.luciteria.com/elements-for-sale but I didn't see it listed.

edit: found it but discontinued... https://www.luciteria.com/element-cubes/plutonium-for-sale

Just here to say that you can order small samples of natural Uranium on Amazon.

As well as uranium glass beads, which glow under UV light and are measurably radioactive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_glass

I'd probably not wear those as jewelry.

You can also go pick it up off the ground in some western areas of the US.

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