Foeskes
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Uranium ore samples international shipping
I'm interested in getting some uranium ore samples from eBay for a collection, the seller(radioactiveitems) is from Australia and ships world
wide(except for China and Italy).
But I'm not sure if it's legal to ship the stuff. Most of his samples are small a few centimeters at most. I live in south east Asia.
So is it risky to buy in terms of legality?
Here is his page with the stuff he sells:https://www.ebay.com/usr/radioactiveitems?_trksid=p2047675.l2559
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Tsjerk
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I don't know your jurisdiction, so little too none can be said.
[Edited on 19-10-2018 by Tsjerk]
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Foeskes
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I mean by international regulations, is it legal to ship?
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Oddly, it is difficult to ship anything radioactve into Aus. Never mind that the country is riddled with the stuff (and currently supplies a third of
the world's uranium). I have no idea about shipping out of the country.
But I am pleased ypu gave the link. I might be able to get some interesting thOKngs from someone local.
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It may depend on local laws. If your country's law isn't that strict then you could try ship it into yours, but I don't guarantee it will work.
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Tsjerk
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Would this ore set off a gamma detector? Alpha and beta shouldn't leave the box, I don't think uranium ore is a strong gamma emitter.
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The naturally occuring uranium isotopes (235 and 238) are alpha emitters, but -ore- will contain all of the daughters in the uranium series, many of
which decay with energetic gamma emissions.
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milovess
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A way to get U(238)
You must study the minerology on the area of the country which you occupy. Go there and search using radiation detector and collect. This is what I
was thinking to do since the shop in our capital city does not sell U(238).
[Edited on 3-1-2019 by milovess]
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