Nuclear power at your backyard.

Actually, cleanup is possible. They don't spread that much radiation. Except at maybe the centre (where people would be wiped out by the explosion anyway), radiation levels are barely lethal. It's not a neutron bomb. It would be pretty expensive and the terror effect high, but it won't turn the area into a long-term wasteland.

As for buying uranium; is it enriched and ready for practical fission? I'm not saying it's illegal, I'm saying you'd probably be monitored. You could make a dirty bomb out of basically any radioactive material though, and there's plenty of that out there.
 
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Eh, It's not a strategic application, it's a tactical one.

A dirty bomb planted in a water filtration facility or a food source, river, transportation network, ect. would be deadly.

As for Uranium.

http://unitednuclear.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=2_4


That plus centrifuge = bomb.

Plus, the black markets are filled with nuclear materials.
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.7%. That's how much explodey stuff(U235) Uranium has in a average ore. Since you need about 50 KGs(U235) to achieve critical mass you need over 7 tons of Uranium ore to make a bomb.

As for a dirty bomb, you can achieve the exact actual effects with Mercury. All a dirty bomb has going for it general ignorance of radiation.
 
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