IAEA NUCLEAR SOURCES SLEUTHS INVESTIGATE GEORGIA
August 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been helping former soviet republics hunt down radioactive sources that went astray in the economic dislocation following the fall of communism. Many of these countries have used nuclear technologies for many years, but with the closure of many factories amidst the ruin of the command economy, some nuclear materials they used went missing. Now expert nuclear detectives from the IAEA's department of nuclear security and safety are helping find these potentially dangerous radioactive 'orphan ...
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