[Semper Paratus]

I disagree with the 'sideshow' labeling of North Korea.
If we don't stop their plutonium process in the next 3 months they will have mad enough to export untold number of dirty bomb material.

[sd-joe]

It may be worse than "dirty bomb material".

Iraq has the technology to make real nukes. All it is lacking is the plutonium.

Pakistan has the technology.

China is unreliable in what technology it will export.

North Korea may have the technology.

There is the real danger of actual nuke devices, not just dirty bombs.

[Theophilus]

The unrefined plutonium they have in the spent rods is just as dangerous, in terms of a dirty bomb, as refined plutonium. I believe, plutonium is not a good dirty bomb material because it too dangerous to the engineers & deliverers (most poisonous substance known to exist), too radioactive (detectable), too unstable (burns when exposed to air) and finally, because it is a synthetic element, too expensive (worth thousands upon thousands perhaps millions of times it weight in gold, most valuable).

The only value obtained by refining the spent rods is to create a nuke because you need purity to sustain a chain reaction.