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Sydney ‘science nerd’ may face jail for importing plutonium in bid to collect all elements of periodic table | Sydney | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The court heard that Lidden had ordered the items from a US-based science website and they had been delivered to his parents’ home.

Did he try to buy something off United Nuclear maybe?

https://unitednuclear.com/uranium-ore-c-2_4/uranium-ore-fragments-p-782.html

Edit: Read the headline 4 times and somehow missed "plutonium" bah