NIS Nuclear Trafficking Collection
The NIS Nuclear Trafficking Collection highlights proliferation-significant cases of nuclear materials diversion, and includes abstracts on all reported instances of trafficking in nuclear and radioactive materials in or from the Newly Independent States from 1991 to the present. The collection also features trafficking incident tables, and summaries and analysis of relevant articles and reports. The information in the abstracts is taken from open sources and presented on an as-reported basis, meaning that the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies cannot independently verify the reported facts in the abstracts.
This material is produced independently for NTI by the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of and has not been independently verified by NTI or its directors, officers, employees, or agents. Copyright © 2011 by MIIS.
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The NIS Nuclear Trafficking Collection highlights proliferation-significant cases of nuclear materials diversion, and includes abstracts on all reported instances of trafficking in nuclear and radioactive materials in or from the Newly Independent States from 1991 to the present.
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Moldova Sentences Would-be Uranium Dealers
May 25, 2012
Two people received prison sentences on Thursday and another was fined for their part in a scheme uncovered in Moldova to sell a quantity of uranium 235, which can be enriched for use in nuclear weapons, Agence France-Presse reported.
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Salesman Accused of Illicit Atomic Transfer to China
May 24, 2012
The United States on Wednesday said it has formally accused a Chinese businessman of illicitly supplying clients in his home country with pressure transducers used in uranium enrichment centrifuges, Reuters reported.
