The Financial Times reports
nuclear experts are raising concerns about the safety of up to 50
tonnes of unenriched uranium in Syria where an increasingly violent and
chaotic civil war could put the stockpile at risk.
The uranium – believed to be of high quality – stems from a project to build a nuclear facility with the help of North Korea at Al-Kibar.
Intelligence agencies believed that the reactor was close to completion, but the site was destroyed by Israeli warplanes in September 2007:
The uranium – believed to be of high quality – stems from a project to build a nuclear facility with the help of North Korea at Al-Kibar.
Intelligence agencies believed that the reactor was close to completion, but the site was destroyed by Israeli warplanes in September 2007:
"An IAEA inspection team visited the
destroyed Al-Kibar site in May 2008 and only found traces of uranium.
This merely added to the mystery of where the 50 tonnes of uranium, if
it exists, might be. Such a stockpile would be enough, according to
experts, to provide weapons grade fuel for five atomic devices.
"Some government officials have raised
concerns that Iran, which is closely allied to the Syrian regime and
urgently needs uranium for its nuclear programme, might be trying to
seize such a stockpile.
"These officials’ fears have been
triggered by signs of movement at what they allege is a secret uranium
conversion facility that the Syrian regime built at the town of Marj
al-Sultan near Damascus."
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