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  • Russia Alleges Official Tried to Sell Nuclear Waste

    10/01/2003 9:27:55 AM PDT · by knighthawk · 3 replies · 23+ views
    Bloomberg ^ | October 01 2003 | AFP
    <p>Oct. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Prosecutors in the Russian Far East today charged an official from a state-owned company with trying to sell nuclear waste recovered from ships in the country's Northern Fleet, Agence France-Presse reported.</p> <p>Alexander Tyulyakov, 52, deputy director of Atomflot, tried to sell 1.1 kilograms (2.4 pounds) of radioactive uranium and radium waste that could be used to make a so-called dirty bomb, in which conventional explosives are used to disperse nuclear material, AFP cited an unidentified police spokesman as saying in the city of Murmansk. Atomflot carries out repairs on Russia's nuclear-powered ice-breakers based in the Arctic port.</p>