Indian Police Reportedly Recover Uranium

Indian police reportedly discovered weapon-grade uranium late last year while arresting two drug trafficking suspects, Agence France-Presse reported Saturday (see GSN, Aug. 25, 2004).

The Times of India newspaper reported that police discovered 8.8 ounces of “99 percent uranium” in a lead-lined box during the arrest, which occurred in late December in northern India, AFP reported.

“I will not hazard a guess about where the uranium was headed,” said director general of police R.P. Singh. “A number of top investigating agencies are currently looking into that.”

Sources told the Times that the uranium might have come from India’s Narora nuclear facility in Bulandshahr (Agence France-Presse/Yahoo!News, Feb. 5).

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