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Since the attacks of September 11th 2001 and many others that followed, high emphasis and increasing efforts have been put towards protecting people from terrorist attacks. However, unlike several years ago, this protection is no longer directed against conventional weapons only; nowadays a radiological “dirty bomb” attack or even a nuclear attack poses serious threats, according to experts, and these threats only continue to grow. The materials used in nuclear weapons are Uranium (U-235) and Plutonium (Pu-239) both named as “special nuclear material” (SNM).