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She reveals it was Sator who sabotaged his CIA team and that KORD has the artifact, which is weapons-grade plutonium.
The Kyiv/Tallinn item is not actually weapons-grade plutonium. Later in the screenplay, the Protagonist explicitly says it is “not plutonium,” and Priya identifies it as the final piece of the Algorithm; she also says it was with “Ukrainian security services,” not specifically KORD.
Full reasoning
In Tenet, the object is initially referred to as “Plutonium 241,” but that turns out to be a cover description, not its true nature.
The screenplay first has Priya say the loose “241” was taken by "Ukrainian security services" and was moving through Tallinn. That already contradicts the article’s wording that KORD had it.
More importantly, after the Tallinn sequence, the screenplay explicitly clarifies that the item is not plutonium. The Protagonist says, "Which is not plutonium, is it?" Priya later confirms that after Sator gets the “241,” he has "All nine" sections and explains that his mission has been to reassemble the Algorithm. So the article’s statement that the artifact “is weapons-grade plutonium” is incorrect: it is actually an Algorithm piece that characters initially believe or describe as plutonium.
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- TENET by Christopher Nolan
PRIYA: "Plutonium 241..." PROTAGONIST: "Who did?" PRIYA: "Ukrainian security services. It’s moving through Tallinn in a week."
- TENET by Christopher Nolan
PROTAGONIST: "Except where I stashed the plutonium." ... PROTAGONIST (CONT'D): "Which is not plutonium, is it?"
- TENET by Christopher Nolan
PRIYA: "After the 241? All nine." ... "Sator’s lifelong mission, financed and guided by the future, has been to find and reassemble the algorithm."