Uranium is not as bad as you think.
It is transported via lorry, if something happened where the contents were unloaded, they could be picked up (would advise a nuclear suit, but its not going to affect anything further than a few metres)
Transport of Radioactive Materials
cliffs :
* About twenty million consignments of all sizes containing radioactive materials are routinely transported worldwide annually on public roads, railways and ships.
* These use robust and secure containers. At sea, they are generally carried in purpose-built ships.
* Since 1971 there have been more than 20 000 shipments of used fuel and high-level wastes (over 80 000 tonnes) over many million kilometres.
* There has never been any accident in which a container with highly radioactive material has been breached, or has leaked.