I finally watched the DVD of the movie "A Good Day to Die Hard" with Bruce Willis. The man is getting too old for this stuff, and he's even younger than I.
The movie contained a glaring factual error. The characters kept referring to "weapons grade uranium" (bomb quality) at Chernobyl, and that somehow its diversion resulted in the nuclear accident which occurred there in Unit #4.
The type of reactors constructed at Chernobyl used slightly enriched uranium, NOT bomb grade. When operating they did produce plutonium, but they were NOT capable of producing enriched uranium. If there was any bomb grade uranium at the site, it had nothing to do with the reactors.
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Nuclear-Fuel-Cycle/Power-Reactors/Appendices/RBMK-Reactors/#.Ue6b3I3VBid
Why the movie's creators chose such an outlandish scenario is anyone's guess. I suspect that their decision may have been influenced by the hysteria over Iran's uranium enrichment program. However, it's about as believable as the claim that so-called terrorist José Padilla intended to enrich uranium by swinging a bucket at the end of a rope around his head.
We should know better than to believe this kind of baloney. But the ruling class and their accomplices in the one percent would rather dish out fantasies instead of facts, since facts and the rule of law apparently are not on their agenda.
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