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Threat Assessment: Smuggling Report “Flawed,” Industry Group Says A recent ABC News report in which a correspondent smuggled depleted uranium into the United States was “flawed,” the Nuclear Energy Institute said Wednesday (see GSN, Sept. 9). Scott Peterson, the institute’s vice president for communications, said the smuggled uranium could not be used to make a nuclear device. It was therefore difficult to draw a parallel, he said, between smuggling enriched and depleted uranium. “Transport of 15 pounds of depleted uranium is perfectly legal and poses no threat to the public,” Peterson said. “The ABC correspondent might just as well have been carrying 15 pounds of oranges in a suitcase, because one activity is just as legal and safe as the other.” An institute release described the conclusions drawn by ABC News as “unsupported by the investigation itself.” Peterson warned that inaccurate journalism could prove “needlessly alarming” to the general public. “This was a flawed investigation that runs the risk of needlessly alarming viewers at a time of heightened sensitivities. We respectfully urge greater caution in this area,” he said (Nuclear Energy Institute release, Sept. 11).
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