[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.

[Lurker]

Thank you for injecting a few facts.

This dirty bomb thing is so over blown it's ridiculous.

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