Weapons grade plutonium missing from Idaho State

[clearconscience]

Idaho State University loses weapons-grade plutonium capable of making a dirty bomb Idaho State University loses weapons-grade plutonium capable of making a dirty bomb

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[Crohnos01]

Well there's a nice warm and fuzzy

 

[partsed]

Calling Doc Brown......

 

[Mark W.]

A piece about the size of a quarter! how big of a Bomb can that make? Not very much material.

 

[Stomper]

At least one dirty hand grenade.....

 

[Camelfilter]

A piece about the size of a quarter! how big of a Bomb can that make? Not very much material.

Yar, it's the psychological aspect of "dirty bomb".

Have worked with cesium sourced irradiators in the past.

Currently doing so requires extensive background clearance & marked increased security measures. For working with a source shielded/embedded of about similar quantity (and not fisible material to begin with).

One of the concerns post 911 was that "crazies" could detonate a "device" near the source, thus creating a "dirty bomb".

When we were discussing how to go about increasing security measures at the time, and why? I kept thinking "who thinks like that", but I now recognize that you continually have to think out of the box for safety...because crazy will too.

 

[Caveman Jim]

There goes a neighborhood...

 

[Boboclown]

And people are concerned with the honest and law abiding...

While stuff like this can happen instead.

 

[notazombie]

Ban Idaho!

 

[cigars]

Mmmmmm....plutonium burger.

 

[mkwerx]

Someone is making a scale model of the Fat Man and wanted to be as accurate as possible?

 

[NW Backpacker]

There goes a neighborhood...

Can we pick which neighborhood?

 

[Caveman Jim]

Can we pick which neighborhood?

Surely, which one did you have in mind?

 

[brokenarrow]

I thought, sometimes a mistake I've been told, I read that this happened in 2003. If so it took a while for the news to get out.