kengr

If they go with paranoia, then yeah. If they go with actual risks, it's bad, but not horrible.

Oh yeah, they did the usual "It'll be contaminated for millennia" bit.

*sigh* With some fairly ordinary cleaning, you'd get the background count down to normal levels for many buildings (say ones with a lot of granite in them).

Oh yeah, see my reply above about how the same amount of uranium oxide could be turned into maybe a dozen simple, easy to build *nukes*.

(Note that if it isn't enriched uranium, they don't *need* to smuggle it, because uranium oxide has industrial uses)