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There's a long history of irregularities surrounding nuclear material in the United States: the 1965 Apollo Affair involving missing highly enriched uranium, the unknown whereabouts of several nuclear fuel rods from the Humboldt Bay nuclear reactor in California, plutonium and other nuclear materials missing from reprocessing operations and unaccounted for (these unaccounted for losses exist in every nuclear program and account for several percent of total materials), including allegations that Karen Silkwood stole plutonium from the Cimarron Fuel Fabrication Site to contaminate herself with, and even an 1989 EPA/FBI raid of the government's own Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant!

How plausible would it be for a government or private worker to have done with nuclear materials what some allege Bruce Ivins did with anthrax, stealing restricted nuclear materials and then using them to create contamination or even a dirty bomb or nuclear weapon?
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