Uranium find in Russian dump

This is not good. We know of the island in Russia were they burried the bio-weapons, now this landfill with radioactive trash. I guess we have been lucky so far no country has been hit by a terrorist using Soviet trash from the cold war days.

Tramps who found radioactive material and tried to sell it sparked security alert.

RUSSIAN security forces have seized two containers full of highly radioactive uranium-238 that were found by tramps at a waste dump in central Russia and taken to a scrapyard to sell. Radiation levels at the dump in Saratov, a town on the River Volga, were 358 times higher than normal, officials said.

Depleted uranium, where uranium-238 is usually found, can be used to make nuclear �dirty bombs�. The find will renew fears that radioactive material at dozens of poorly-guarded sites around Russia might fall into the hands of terrorist groups.


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