Two journalists, who were detained after a video was shared appearing to show South Sudan’s president wetting himself in public, have been released. However, two still remain in detention.
Scott Roecker, vice-president for Nuclear Materials Security at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, told theQuote Message: This is also uranium that’s located in a very remote location in southern Libya so if you’re removing this material… you must really want it.
It should be made clear that this in its current form it cannot be used in a nuclear weapon. In fact there are very little radiation concerns with the material as it is today.”Quote Message: In order to turn this into material that could be used in a nuclear weapon you would need vast infrastructure with which to process it to enrich it sufficiently for a nuclear weapon - so really it’s more of a concern if a state is trying to acquire that material.
Quote Message: But what it could be used for is feedstock for a nuclear weapons programme and that’s really the concern, who would want it, why would they want to acquire it without anyone finding out about it.”
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