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wolfd04/26/20253 repliesview on HN

I believe it was this https://www.luciteria.com/element-cubes/plutonium-for-sale


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perihelions04/26/2025

Right, they're both Soviet ionization smoke detectors based on Pu-239. The Carl Willis blogpost is a teardown of one such similar item.

thadt04/26/2025

Oh, well if that's the case thats waaay more bananas. Like maybe around 4000.

Nobody should be eating that many bananas.

tgsovlerkhgsel04/26/2025

"This item is now discontinued." I wonder if this incident is the reason (or if it simply sold out in the aftermath).