VIENNA: The UN’s atomic watchdog has found uranium particles in Syria throughout a probe right into a website suspected of as soon as housing a covert nuclear reactor, based on a confidential report seen by AFP on Tuesday (Sep 2).
The Worldwide Atomic Power Company (IAEA) has for years investigated claims that Syria had constructed a nuclear reactor on the distant desert website of Deir Ezzor, which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in 2007. In 2011, the company mentioned 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 persistently denied the allegation.
URANIUM PARTICLES DISCOVERED
In its newest restricted report, circulated to board members on Monday, the IAEA mentioned 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 have been of anthropogenic origin, that means they have been produced because of chemical processing, the company mentioned. “The present Syrian authorities indicated that that they had no data which may clarify the presence of such uranium particles,” the report famous.
