Bellona nuclear digest. March 2024
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
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Publish date: March 2, 2005
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The man was detained at Boryspil airport, Ukraine’s main international gateway, with 582 grams of uranium. “SBU officers detained the person who was moving a case with a radioactive substance ãranium-238 — in his car,” the government said in a statement. It said ministry specialists had seized the case. A ministry official said an investigation had been launched. Depleted uranium, where uranium-238 is normally found, can theoretically be used to make nuclear “dirty bombs”, but it is often used in gun ammunition and armour because of its high density.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
Russian president Vladimir Putin has told the United Nations atomic energy watchdog that Russia plans to restart Ukraine’s embattled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, currently occupied by Russian troops and technicians, fueling worries about a serious nuclear accident on the front lines of a grinding military conflict.
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Recent attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant "mark the beginning of a new and gravely dangerous front of the war," the UN atomic agency's director general said last week.