Article mentions seizure of red mercury (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_mercury" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_mercury</a>) which suggests that either the writer is incredibly misinformed or this is an intentional disinfo piece.
> radioactive Californium element worth $70 million<p>> with a worth of approximately $4 million per gram.<p>> The amount of seized Californium was reported as 1.441 kilograms.<p>I realize this isn’t the important part of the article, but did the writer really not notice how bad they failed at basic math?<p>1,441 * $4M = ~$5.8 <i>billion</i>
> with a worth of approximately $4 million per gram
> The amount of seized Californium was reported as 1.441 kilograms.
> The suspects reportedly agreed to sell the element for $72 million.<p>Seems that some value is off. It should be worth $5,764 million. Selling something that worths $5 billion for just $72 million is a big discount.
>In 2016, police seized 13 nuggets of pure aluminum, a material used in nuclear energy production.<p>Anyone know more about this? I have pure aluminum in my pantry at home.