Maximum credible incident

None of the munitions at Pueblo contains M28 propellant therefore, this incident has no direct bearing on planned disposal activities at Pueblo. However, the incident does show that even though the maximum credible event may not result from every process upset, sound engineering practices must always be used. This will reduce the likelihood of an accident and mitigate the consequences of accidents that do occur. The incident also highlights the need for training personnel involved in such operations to become aware of all possible hazards. 

Although relevant exercises have been conducted, and Cold War nuclear weapons programs provide validated analytic platforms, there have been no actual post-det terrorist incidents involving an IND or RDD to date. Consequently, no technical investigations in the contemporary embodiment of nuclear forensic analysis exist for an actual post-det situation, and all discussed case studies necessarily focus on interdicted, pre-det materials. (However, a nuclear accident that is perhaps exemplary of maximum-credible consequences of successful terrorist activities was the uncontrolled criticality and resultant explosion of the Soviet RBMK power reactor at Chernobyl in 1986.)... 

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