Is there material in the missing fuel pins that terrorists could use, say, to make a dirty bomb or other dangerous weapon?
The material is radioactive. Because it is radioactive, any attempt to remove it from the spent fuel pool and to move it off-site without the proper shielding would cause the radiation monitors to alarm. It would be unrealistic to speculate a scenario in which this material could have been taken offsite without the licensee’s knowledge.
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