About 2.5 tons of uranium has disappeared in Libya, according to the UN IAEA nuclear regulatory body. The IAEA is alert! It is no longer in the facility, which is no longer under government control.
“The material is not where it should be,” reads a glowing but sober IAEA report, which promptly sent nuclear shock waves around the world.
Plant no longer under state control
What alarms international experts after a failed inspection: the factory in the North African country where the natural uranium in the form of uranium ore concentrate was stored is no longer under state control. The whereabouts of the “radiating” material are completely unclear.
Ten barrels of Yellow Cake are missing
According to the concerned IAEA director Rafael Grossi (photo above), a total of ten barrels of so-called “yellow cake” are missing. This material – which translates as yellow cake – is considered particularly dangerous because it is a powdered uranium compound that can be used in further processed form for nuclear power plants and in a higher, namely enriched form, even for the construction of nuclear weapons. .
Enough material to build a dirty bomb
for dr Reinhard Uhrig, the internationally renowned Viennese nuclear expert of the environmental organization GLOBAL 2000, this nuclear uncertainty is the main cause of concern. Although this natural uranium is not yet a material that can be used as fissile material, the loss is extremely worrying: if such a quantity of radioactive material falls into the wrong hands and is enriched in problem countries, all alarm bells should ring. Because this not insignificant amount could be used directly to build a dirty terrorist bomb with relatively little high tech.
Libya has not calmed down since the fall of leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. Since 2014, the country has been divided between rival civil war factions in the east and west.
Source: Krone
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