{"id":192,"date":"2011-08-12T18:21:39","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T23:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/2011\/08\/12\/meet-the-regulations\/"},"modified":"2011-08-12T18:21:41","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T23:21:41","slug":"meet-the-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/2011\/08\/12\/meet-the-regulations\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ideasinactiontv.com\/tcs_daily\/2005\/06\/meet-the-regulations.html\">Meet the Regulations &#8211; TCS Daily<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thorium is a radioactive metal that isn&#8217;t used for very much any more, precisely because of its light radioactivity. The US Geological Survey (having absorbed the Bureau of Mines) estimates annual usage in the US at about $30,000 worth a year. One of the people who does use it is one of our customers and a few years back they asked us to provide some for them. About 12 or 13 lbs was needed to keep their process going for 5 years or so in the manufacturing of a particular type of light bulb, a fairly trivial enterprise you might think and certainly one that you would think would be easy to supply. Especially if like us you were on the inside of the metals business and knew that there were (and are) warehouses full of this metal in the US. The material is left over from the US Navy&#8217;s nuclear reactor program and at current rates of usage there are centuries of supply simply sitting there. Should be the easiest thing in the world really, shouldn&#8217;t it? Buy a piece, slap a decent profit margin on to it and send it off to the customer and, as is said in certain English circles, Bob&#8217;s your parent of choice&#8217;s male sibling. Then we met the regulations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the Regulations &#8211; TCS Daily Thorium is a radioactive metal that isn&#8217;t used for very much any more, precisely because of its light radioactivity. The US Geological Survey (having absorbed the Bureau of Mines) estimates annual usage in the US at about $30,000 worth a year. One of the people who does use it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-regulations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}