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Gunmen have attacked a convoy of trucks carrying uranium fuel to a nuclear power plant near the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, police say.
The convoy came under attack as it drove past a community controlled by drug traffickers in Angra dos Reis, a tourist city 145km (90 miles) from Rio.
Police escorting the convoy responded and a shootout followed. No-one was injured or detained.
The convoy reached the Angra 2 plant safely 20 minutes after the attack.
The attack in the Rio-Santos highway is the latest in a series of violent incidents in an area popular with visitors.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-47635706
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(Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Friday March 29 2019, @09:47PM (1 child)
I'm going to take that to mean that the spokesperson was referring to the half-life of the fuel, which hadn't changed with processing. Of course, that's not a good measure of risk, but they have a disinformation campaign to run, so I'm willing to give them a little slack.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by The Shire on Saturday March 30 2019, @05:51PM
I'm only buying that if the guy was trying to say that the fuel was "natural" because it was headed into the plant as opposed to being spent fuel coming out of the plant which would have a wide variety of dangerous actinide decay products. It sounds more like a PR deflection than anything though because new fuel rods are highly enriched in U235 and are quite dangerous even in their "natural" unused state.