The polinium was traced on commercial flights in and out of Russia.
Hmmm. Last I heard, they found traces of polonium on the aeroplane, so they knew exactly which seat the owner/carrier was sitting it. Surely, from there, it wouldn't take a genius to figure out who was involved!
That's the nonsense I've already exposed:
Firstly the claim that where the polonium had been could be followed from its emission traces. That is scientific claptrap, it's impossible. As I've observed and Woosh has confirmed, the alpha emission particles have almost no penetrative ability, they cannot even penetrate the thinnest of tissue paper so leave no trace of where they have been. An alpha particle is essentially a simple helium atom, two protons and two neutrons, too light and bulky to penetrate. The only way it could be traced is if the material itself was carried externally in a leaky container that was dribbling out it's content all the way from Russia and into all places it was claimed to have been found.
Secondly the claim of it being traced on aircraft going back into Russia is even more silly since it would also necessitate the leaky container scenario. Remember, the whole world's annual production is under 100 grams so they would have hardly been likely to have enough to dribble it out continuously for days.
And why would they risk carrying incriminating evidence back when it could be safely dumped anywhere since it does no external harm? Once such a deed was done they'd dump any left and it's container. It has little value.
The whole cockeyed story is riddled with such nonsense.
I'm betting this was the political inspired conclusion behind the investigation's findings. Knowing that virtually all polonium 210 is produced in Russia before export of much of it, it was realised that blaming Russia was plausible. Therefore this was the story adopted and they decided to guild the lily with some additional seemingly firmer evidence. Thus the story was born about tracing it everywhere it had been, but that as I've shown was their crucial mistake. There are too many people like me who know the subject far too well scientifically and physically to be fooled by such falsehoods.
Russia could easily have done it, so could all the other people and countries they've upset, so could I.
But the "evidence" produced to try to prove it was Russia has no basis in fact. As Zlatan has observed, the public inquiry found that there was no proof in any of the evidential elements, only circumstantial possibilities that didn't rule out anyone else.
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