IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi said on Wednesday that about 2.5 tonnes of natural uranium had disappeared
The military forces of Eastern Libya, close to the marshal Khalifa Haftarfound uranium canisters that had disappeared from a facility in Libya, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) revealed on Wednesday.
The head of the press service of the forces of N. Libya, general Khaled al-Majub, said in a statement that 10 barrels of uranium were found near the border with Chad, “less than 5 kilometers” from where they were stored. However, a video released separately by him shows workers measuring 18 barrels.
IAEA director-general Raphael Grossi said on Wednesday that about 2.5 tons of natural uranium (yellow cake) had disappeared from a warehouse in Libya and that his agency had launched investigations to ascertain the circumstances of the material’s disappearance.
THE Libya it abandoned its nuclear weapons program in 2003 during the days of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.
Source :Skai
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