Utah Student Allegedly Threatened to Blow Up Nuclear Reactor If Football Team Lost

A University of Utah student was arrested after allegedly threatening to blow up an on-campus nuclear reactor if the school’s football team didn’t win this past weekend.

The 21-year-old female student was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail on Wednesday for investigation of making a threat of terrorism.on Saturday, the woman “posted threats of violence” on the Yik Yak app, according to the police booking affidavit obtained by KSL.com. The woman said if the Utes didn’t beat SDSU, she would “detonate the nuclear reactor that is located in the University of Utah causing a mass destruction.

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