BRITISH NUCLEAR PLANT 'LOSES' PLUTONIUM...

CBC via Drudge ^

[Next_Time_NJ]

SELLAFIELD, ENGLAND - Britain's biggest nuclear site can't account for 30 kilograms of plutonium – enough to make seven or eight nuclear bombs.

[Next_Time_NJ]

[theDentist]

Must be the Illuminati and some eeeeeevil plan.

[rickmichaels]

"When interviewed, the Director of Security at the nuclear plant, Mustapha Abdul Ibrahim Al-Walid, said..."

[Frohickey]

According to the article, its a measurement error, and not really missing.

[mainepatsfan]

Oh I'm sure it will turn up eventually. Hopefully not in the form of a mushroom cloud.

[nuconvert]

Happens all the time

[Peace will be here soon]

"The authority said the loss was "within international standards of expected measurement accuracies for closing a nuclear material balance at the type of facility concerned."

"There is no evidence to suggest that any of the apparent losses reported were real losses of nuclear material," it added."

Did Drudge read the article? I don`t see the big story here.

[OXENinFLA]

Yeah, over time 1/2oz here 1/2oz there adds up to 30....

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BNFL denies claims over plutonium loss

[dirtboy]

According to the article, its a measurement error, and not really missing.

Yeah, I heard this plant had hired some guys from the Mars Climate Orbiter team.

[July 4th]

Too late. Already used it in the DeLorean.

[OXENinFLA]

Now if they reported a 30 Kilo "chuck" was missing I'd be more concerned.

[Betaille]

[RexBeach]

I can't account for three socks I lost doing the wash last night.

[Zhangliqun]

Too late. Already used it in the DeLorean.

...in the flux capacitor...

[tjwmason]

I can't account for three socks I lost doing the wash last night.

If we ever find the thousands of missing socks perhaps there'll be a pile of plutonium next to them all.

[kingsurfer]

Sellafield has been one long embarressment.

[USMC79to83]

30 Kilos = 66 Lbs

Isn't that a lot to "Miss-calculate"

[wolfpat]

Isn't that a lot to "Miss-calculate"
Not when you're talking about plutonium. It doesn't take much to make 66 lbs. If I calculate right, it's a little over a liter and a half.

[MeanWestTexan]

"If we ever find the thousands of missing socks perhaps there'll be a pile of plutonium next to them all."

And ballpoints pens. Don't forget the missing pens!

[tjwmason]

Sellafield has been one long embarressment.

Formerly known as Windscale - but that got a bad name so they changed it.

They had a try at changing the name again to Thorp or something, but it didn't work.