Key questions remain after uranium discovered at Heathrow Airport

The identity of the intended recipients of the radioactive material will be crucial to the investigation and establishing motives.

3:01A major multi-pronged investigation will be under way following the discovery at Heathrow Airport of uranium in a package sent from Pakistan.

Authorities will be pleased their systems have worked and the material was detected but need answers to key questions and quickly, in case more packages are on the way.in the post, unlike other lower-level radioactive materials used in scientific and other devices. It is used only for nuclear power and nuclear weapons so; it is fair to assume it was sent for sinister reasons."Where it comes from, who it appears to be going to and what it is.

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