Securing Loose Nukes in Chile

The Race to Secure Loose Nukes in Chile: The devastating earthquake of February 26 interrupted a U.S. team's top secret effort to remove a potential nuclear bomb from Chile
Enrique Siques for TIME

The Fuel Rod
The greatest dangers to the world's supply of HEU, says Bieniawski, are "insiders." All confirmed cases of illicit trafficking of enriched uranium in the past 20 years have involved employees who siphon material and attempt to sell it on the black market. No amount of physical security, he says, can combat this threat.

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