Turkish police seize 1.4 kg of radioactive californium in Ankara

Article mentions seizure of red mercury (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Red_mercury" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Red_mercury</a>) which suggests that either the writer is incredibly misinformed or this is an intentional disinfo piece.

&gt; radioactive Californium element worth $70 million<p>&gt; with a worth of approximately $4 million per gram.<p>&gt; 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>

&gt; with a worth of approximately $4 million per gram &gt; The amount of seized Californium was reported as 1.441 kilograms. &gt; 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.

Hard to believe. Worldwide production of Californium is just a few milligrams per year.

&gt;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.