[link to finance.yahoo.com]

On the one side of the forked tongue:

FedEx says: "As long as someone doesn't pick it up and try to open it, it wouldn't be harmful to anyone," she said.

And on the other side of the forked tongue:

Nuclear regulatory Commission says, "that NRC did not view the missing rod as a public health concern."

So a fuel rod is missing and radioactive. But they make us strip at the airport and give up our nail clippers.