Well, here’s another thing to add to your list of fears. If rising health care costs, climate change, and an imminent collapse of the global financial system weren’t already enough to keep you up at night, officials in Brussels admit that ISIS cell members from Tuesday’s attack were targeting the head of a nuclear power plant in Belgium, going so far as to film his movements.
Which means, “the logical conclusion is that they wanted to abduct that person and to obtain radioactive material.”
Those are the words of an official at the U.S. Federal Agency for Nuclear Control, which, fuck, man. I don’t want ISIS to dirty bomb anyone.
From Mirror:
The Brussels attacks suicide bombers were plotting to build a dirty bomb and target a nuclear power plant, it’s been claimed.
Brothers Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui, who were behind the deadly attacks at the airport and metro station, were reportedly planning a bomb to scatter radioactive material in a populated area.
The terrorists had also planted a hidden camera in front of the home of a director at the Belgian nuclear power plant , according to reports.
The footage showed the nuclear boss’s comings and goings and prompted investigators to conclude the terrorists “could have put national security in danger like never before”, the newspaper La Derniere Heure reported.
That’s great to hear, because it’s not like the people guarding our nuclear stashes have massive drug problems that could easily be exploited.
Sleep tight this weekend.