(WBIR-TV, Knoxville)
The things Iraq could have used to build weapons of mass destruction may now be in East Tennessee.
The Department of Energy shipped radiological and nuclear material from Iraq to the US about two weeks ago, including low-enriched uranium.
The Y12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge is the main storage facility for uranium in the U.S.
The Department of Energy will not confirm if any of the Iraqi material is in Oak Ridge. A local spokesperson referred Action Ten News to the National Nuclear Security Administration.
"I can not confirm where it is, but it is being held at secure DOE locations," says NNSA Spokesperson Bryan Wilkes in Washington, DC.
The uranium was low-enriched uranium that Wilkes says could not be used in a nuclear weapon, but he says the radiological material could have been used in a dirty bomb.
Y12 dismantled some nuclear material from Libya in March.
Right down the road. :)