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Uzbek Customs Officials Detain Two Radioactive Cargoes from Kazakhstan
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20060120 |
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Uzbek Customs Officials Detain Two Radioactive Cargos from Kazakhstan |
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11 May 2006 |
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ITAR-TASS. Kriminalnaya khronika i chrezvychaynye proisshestviya
[Criminal Timeline and Emergency Situations]; in Integrum Techno database,
www.integrum.ru |
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Radioactive Isotopes |
Abstract:
Uzbek customs detained two radioactive cargos in transit from Kazakhstan, ITAR-TASS reported on
11 May 2006.
The first cargo, a 15-ton shipment of zinc waste en route from Kazakhstan to
Iran, set off a was Yantar radiation monitor and was subsequently detained at
the Alat customs checkpoint in Bukhara oblast. According to the Uzbek
customs officials, the cargo belonged to a Kazakh company Kasting, which
did not have a permit from the Uzbek government to transport radioactive
materials and forged the accompanying documents. The Nuclear Physics Institute
of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences determined that the radioactive source,
retrieved from the cargo, was cesium-137. However, no further details on amount
of cesium or the source device were provided.
The second cargo, en route from Kazakhstan to Tajikistan, was detained near
Tashkent, when radiation monitoring devices registered radiation emitting from a
batch of molybdenum oxide. Analysis showed that the cargo contained radium-226,
uranium-234, uranium-238 and thorium-234. No details on the size of the cargo
and the amount of each of the seized materials were provided.
Investigation of both cases is in progress.
The
Center for Nonproliferation Studies has not verified the accuracy or veracity
of this report or the facts presented therein. For more information
on the material in this database please contact Dr. Scott Parrish at sparrish@miis.edu.
 This material is produced independently for NTI
by the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the
Monterey Institute of International Studies and
does not necessarily reflect the opinions of and has
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employees, agents. Copyright © 2003 by MIIS.
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