There wasn't a uranium theft as much as they lost track of a spent fuel rod.
But the real story about missing nuclear power plants is not in the civilian
sector, but in the defense sector. In the civilian sector, everything has
to be above board for the most part because if a judge ever found a company
lied, well, they would be in pretty deep water.
Government is under no such obligation, and so you see conditions at secret
facilities that are probably about the worst. You've got the DOE and the
various contractors basically running amok through the 1970s. Rocky Flats
nuclear "trigger" facility, I believe, alone, lost enough to plutonium to
make maybe a couple Nagasaki powered bombs. And I remember seeing radiation
charts that the plant in Hanford, Washington, pretty dumped nearly the same
amount of radioactive stuff as Chernobyl did, except that it went mostly
into the water, and not the air. Enjoy your salmon!
Post by JustinI heard somebody mention there was a Uranium theft in the 1970's from
Peach Bottom Nuclear Facility in Pennsylvania. They never found out who
did it.
I can't find anything about this. Did it actually happen?