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"Congo arrests atomic research chief - government"
Thu Mar 8, 2007 8:29 AM GMT
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By Joe Bavier
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's top nuclear research official has been arrested, the government said on Wednesday, after a Kinshasa newspaper reported uranium had gone missing from an atomic institute in the city.
"We have been informed that he has been arrested," said Godefoid Mayobo, minister in the Prime Minister's office and government spokesman.
"We are waiting for the results of the inquiry. We are not aware of the details." He did not say why Professor Fortunat Lumu, Commissioner General for Atomic Energy, was arrested.
Kinshasa's Le Phare newspaper reported on Wednesday two senior officials had been detained after the disappearance of around 100 bars of uranium from the city's Regional Centre for Atomic Energy.
The centre houses a small, inactive research reactor on a university campus."
Congo nuke chief ping
I assume someone was going to pay a pretty penny for those 100 bars of uranium in order for those two to risk their jobs. Very interesting, thanks Cindy.