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Missing nuclear material may pose attack threat: IAEA
2013-06-28 11:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Nuclear and radioactive materials are still going missing and the information the United Nations atomic agency receives about such incidents may be the tip of the iceberg, said a senior U.N. official. Any loss or theft of highly enriched uranium, plutonium or different types of radioactive sources is potentially serious as al Qaeda-style militants could try to use them to make a crude nuclear device or a so-called dirty bomb, experts say. Khammar Mrabit, a director of the U.N.'s International Atomic...
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