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...terrorists might not find it too difficult to get their hands on it. Hijacking could be relatively easy even though shipments are accompanied by armed guards. The AEC is tightening its security measures against theft, but some weapons-grade material is lost during processing and merely written off as MUF (materials unaccounted for). If an employee-conspirator decided to accumulate a critical amount of plutonium by helping himself to a little MUF at a time, the loss might never be detected. Weapons-grade material could also be taken by force in a direct assault on a storage, fabrication or reprocessing...
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