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What's Being Done About Nuclear Security

Posted by timothy on from the here-catch dept.

KrisCowboy writes "Wired.com has an interesting article about Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham's speech about the defensive measures being taken at the Nuclear Energy warehouses. 'Atomic storehouses, vulnerable to terrorist attack, will be emptied of their radioactive loads,' he promises. Keeping in mind the recent Slashdot story about a Hafnium bomb, more security measures are needed, and fast."

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  1. So much for RTOFA.... by NewbieProgrammerMan · · Score: 5, Funny
    Keeping in mind the recent Slashdot story about a Hafnium bomb, more security measures are needed, and fast.
    Yes, better get right on that. And while you're at it, make sure you hide all the palladium and water so those crafty terrorists can't make a cold fusion bomb...
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  2. oxymoron by mabu · · Score: 1, Funny

    "nuclear security"

    1. Re:oxymoron by Bobdoer · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'd opt for "government intelligence" in this case.

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  3. End of the world by whiteranger99x · · Score: 3, Funny

    At the rate we're going, the whole world will end up much like THIS if we're not careful :P

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  4. Not "nuclear" by MightyPez · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nuculure. Use some strategery, morans.

  5. Wow by Rura+Penthe · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Keeping in mind the recent Slashdot story about a Hafnium bomb, more security measures are needed, and fast."

    I don't know where to begin with this. We should be more afraid because of technology we don't even have yet (and may never have) might get into the hands of terrorists? Do they have some massive R&D lab hidden in the mountains near Pakistan? And what does a theoretical isotope bomb have to do with our current nuclear stockpile?

  6. Sorry Guys... by damien_kane · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Its pronounced 'nukular', Lisa; 'nukular'..."

  7. Re:Whatever by bfischer · · Score: 3, Funny

    How about we outsource it to India?

  8. Re: Free Radiation Therapy Machines in 3rd World by Black+Parrot · · Score: 2, Funny


    > It's worse that you think. A number of years ago (maybe 10 to 20?), the radiation detectors at Los Alamos went off when a delivery of patio furniture passed by. Turns out the cast iron in the furniture contained Cobalt-60. Tracing the shipment back, they found that the furniture had been made in Mexico from scrap metal. Someone in Mexico had sold a radiation therapy machine as scrap.

    Great for tanning both sides at once, eh?

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  9. Re:Ironically... by Jardine · · Score: 5, Funny

    So basically, a 50 caliber projectile won't do shit to these containers.

    Perhaps if we used some sort of nuclear weapon to break open the container.

    What we'll need is materials to build a nuclear weapon, then we can move it by truck close enough to the convoy. Once in position, we can set off the nuclear weapon, breaking open the container of spent fuel!

    Then all we'd have to do is gather up the spent fuel and we'd have the makings of a dirty bomb. It's foolproof!

  10. Re:Whatever by cfuse · · Score: 2, Funny
    Hmph, to put it where exactly?

    Isn't the current plan to put it into bunker busters and rain it indescriminately on any country with oil?