An expert in nuclear security has told the a Russian news agency that the Brussels terrorists were probably searching for radioactive isotopes for dirty bomb production rather than planning a terrorist act at a nuclear power plant Tass reports: “The terrorist group that committed the terrorist acts in Paris and Brussels showed interest in the Belgian nuclear facilities most probably for the purpose of gaining access to highly radioactive isotopes for creating a radiological explosive device, the so-called dirty bomb, rather than exploding a nuclear power plant,” the expert said. All these assumptions are based on the analysis of ‘the available open information,” the expert said. In the expert’s opinion, “the spying on the head of the Belgian nuclear research program organized by the members of the terrorist group and some other facts evidence precisely this version.” The Belgian media earlier suggested the version that the terrorists had been preparing explosions at the country’s nuclear power plants. “Nuclear power plants have a high safety margin and an external terrorist attack on an NPP with the use of actually any amount of home-made explosives that were used during the terrorist acts in Brussels and Paris won’t cause any serious damage to [...]