VIENNA: The UN’s atomic watchdog has found uranium particles in Syria throughout a probe right into a web site suspected of as soon as housing a covert nuclear reactor, in response to a confidential report seen by AFP on Tuesday (Sep 2).
The Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company (IAEA) has for years investigated claims that Syria had constructed a nuclear reactor on the distant desert web site of Deir Ezzor, which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in 2007. In 2011, the company stated it was “very doubtless” the constructing at Deir Ezzor “was a nuclear reactor which ought to have been declared”. Syria, whose long-time chief Bashar al-Assad was ousted in December 2024 after 14 years of civil warfare, has constantly denied the allegation.
URANIUM PARTICLES DISCOVERED
In its newest restricted report, circulated to board members on Monday, the IAEA stated it had discovered “a big variety of pure uranium particles in samples taken at one of many three places allegedly linked to Deir Ezzor”.
The particles had been of anthropogenic origin, that means they had been produced because of chemical processing, the company stated. “The present Syrian authorities indicated that that they had no data that may clarify the presence of such uranium particles,” the report famous.
