'Dirty bomb' material found

[soulwinner]

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0...,00.htmlRUSSIAN security forces have seized two containers full of highly radioactive uranium-238 after a group of homeless people tried to sell them to a scrap dealer.

The containers were found at a waste dump in the central Russian town of Saratov, which lies on the River Volga.

Radiation levels at the dump were 358 times higher than normal, officials said.

Depleted uranium, where uranium-238 is usually found, can be used to make nuclear "dirty bombs". The find will renew fears that radioactive material at dozens of poorly-guarded sites around Russia might fall into the hands of terrorists.

The US and other countries have been pressing Russia, which has the world's second biggest nuclear arsenal, to do more to protect its atomic sites since the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington in 2001

Just have to wonder how long before this stuff gets into the wrong hands :x:

[ted]

It's probably too late for wondering that. It's more like when will they use it?

t.

[other one]

Enough to keep you up at night if you knew of all of it......