"There is more (weapons grade) material on civilian sites than all weapons stockpiles put together"

[PamW]

13. BALONEY!!!

Atomic power is clean, green and too cheap to meter don'cha know?
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Kris continues to tout the "too cheap to meter" line; when I've showed him several times that the quote does not originate with the nuclear industry but with a Government official, AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss. Additionally, Strauss was not talking about fission power plants; he was talking about fusion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Strauss

In 1954, Strauss predicted that atomic power would make electricity "too cheap to meter." He was referring to Project Sherwood, a secret program to develop power from hydrogen fusion, not uranium fission reactors as is commonly believed.

The concern about nuclear terrorism is about terrorists getting a nuclear weapon. However, you don't find material usable in weapons in a commercial power plant. You do find radioactive material, but that's not necessarily nuclear weapons material.

The radioactive material could be used for "dirty bombs". However, "dirty bombs" are over-hyped as the following from UC-Berkeley Physics Professor Richard Muller published in Technology Review calling the "Weapons of Mass Distraction" says:

http://muller.lbl.gov/TRessays/29-Dirty_Bombs.htm

PamW