RE: So, is reprocessing in America's future?

[Bernard L Cohen <blc+@PITT.EDU>]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, NECNP wrote:



> Actually, weapons grade plutonium is needed only to create "clean" 

> weapons.  One can still get a critical mass from reactor grade plutonium, 

> or barring that one could just use it to contaminate an area.  It would be 

> a simple matter for a terrorist to contaminate something like the elevators 

> in the World Trade Center and have the non-weapons grade plutonium tracked 

> all through the buildings shutting them down for a long time.  It really 

> doesn't need to be a bomb.



	You don't need plutonium for that. Cs-137 or any other

radioisotope would be much more effective than Pu and very easy to obtain.





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