[blam]

Forgot to include this in the article.

[Domandred]

I would like to thank the Telegraph for um...telegraphing...to bad guys where to get nuclear material if they don't already have it.

Thanks guys, good work.

[PajamaTruthMafia]

I'm surprised the UN didn't give the terrorists the address and directions! Heaven knows they wouldn't do a thing to secure it.

[goldfinch]

I suppose it is too much to ask Russia to use some of their oil money to clean up their mess...

[Thud]

The real danger is sale by the employees.

[DBrow]

This is an article designed to trigger fear a la Pavlov.

Radioactive

highly enriched

highly radioactive

If it actually is highly enriched, then it's worth much more by weight than gold, and unlikely to be left lying around.

If it is the 2-3% research reactor fuel, then the value of the fuel is balanced by the recovery cost and it would not make a good terror weapon.

Uranium and plutonium, when pure, are not Highly Radioactive (hint- the long half-life. Cobalt 60 is a billion times more radioactive than uranium and 24,000 times more radioactive than plutonium. Carbon 14 or tritium are both thousands of times more radioactive than either U or Pu).

Any radioactive dispersal device has to deal with the concentration problem. if you are going to contaminate an area, the gadget you use to spray or puff or whatever your stuff from will be thousands of times more dangerous than your target area, once you have spread it out.