If terrorists try to take the radioactive cylinders, he added, "they will probably kill themselves." After the Sept. 11 attacks, U.S. and international officials have developed new jitters about the remaining nuclear batteries and are taking aggressive steps to round them up.
"It's a bigger deal, post 9/11," said a Bush administration official. "We're trying not to do this in an alarmist way. We're taking reasonable steps to help the Georgians deal with these and other sources so they are appropriately controlled."
The fear is that the old batteries could be turned into radiation or radiological weapons, sometimes known as "dirty nukes."
I posted it on the Islamic_Violence list because this is a concern in that the Al-Queda would get access to such devices!