[jjk166]

Actually spreading it out over a large area is much safer. What you don't want is a big hunk of highly enriched uranium landing somewhere. Not that it is very likely to harm anyone, but it becomes quite a nightmare to deal with it.

[SJC_Hacker]

Any loss of containment is not going to play well in the news media.

We saw the hyperreactivity over Fukushima. I even know some very educated people who should know better like not wanting to eat any seafood caught in the Pacific.