Plutonium?

So someone stole a small disc containing plutonium from the back of a parked SUV.

One of the Idaho National Laboratory specialists told them, Ortiz said, “that it wasn’t an important or dangerous amount” of plutonium. So they closed the investigation to avoid “chasing a ghost,” Ortiz said.

Idaho National Laboratory spokeswoman Sarah Neumann responded that “from INL’s perspective, the theft was taken seriously” and properly reported to the police and the Energy Department...

. Lab documents state that a month after the incident, one of the specialists charged with safeguarding the equipment in San Antonio was given a “Vision Award” by her colleagues. “Their achievements, and those of their colleagues at the laboratory, are the reasons our fellow citizens look to INL to resolve the nation’s big energy and security challenges,” Mark Peters, the lab director, said in an April 21, 2017, news release.

well, that makes me feel safe.

the problem is not about making an atomic bomb: The problem is making a "dirty bomb" which would cause more hysteria than actual harm.

radioactive substances used in medicine is an easy source for this, but luckily they usually keep track of it.

and then there is the problem of smoke detector dirty bombs.