Theft of radioactive materials in Russia

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Despite the efforts of the US CTR programme and its sister programmes run by the Department of Energy (DOE) more nuclear material than no remains vulnerable to theft. Surprisingly, material that has gone missing has disappeared from nuclear power plants in Russia and the former republics, as opposed to weapons-grade material storage sites. Yet unaccounted for material, such as caesium and strontium, is still potential dirty bomb material and poses a terrorist as well as an environmental threat.

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[ 17.08.2009 ]
Missing Russian vessel secured from hijackers, but reports conflict on the circumstances – and if the boat carried smuggled nuke material
Russia said Tuesday it had arrested eight men suspected of hijacking the Arctic Sea cargo ship whose sudden disappearance in July sparked an international mystery and a dramatic high seas chase – but has not cleared up the diverging reports on how or why the ship was taken, and why it took weeks for the hijacking to be reported.
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[ 21.04.2009 ]
Three arrested for trying to sell nuclear materials in Ukrainian sting operation
Three Ukrainians were arrested for seeking to sell a metal container of what they said contained some 3.7 kilograms pf plutonium-239 for a price of $10 million in a sting operation set up by the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), security service officials said Monday.
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[ 20.08.2008 ]
US efforts In Georgia to contain nuclear theft being routed by Russian army
Continuing fighting between Russian and Georgian forces over the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia have plunged two crucial US-led anti-nuclear theft programmes into chaos, say officials with the US Department of Energy, which leads the nonproliferation and anti-nuclear smuggling efforts.
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[ 18.08.2009 ]
Hijackers threatened to blow up Russia cargo ship if ransom demand not met, Moscow says

The hijackers of a cargo ship Arctic Sea threatened to blow it up if their ransom demands were not met, Russian news agencies reported on Wednesday according to Reuters.

[ 30.01.2009 ]
US bomb scientist says enough plutonium for 25 bombs is missing

Soviet-era plutonium that was never accounted for after the Cold War could fuel roughly 25 nuclear weapons as powerful as the "Fat Man" atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in World War II, former Air Force Secretary Thomas Reed said Monday, according to the Las Vegas Review Journal.

[ 23.11.2008 ]
Risk of nuclear terrorism on the rise

The risk that terrorists will acquire and use atomic weapons will increase in coming decades as nuclear technology and expertise proliferate, according to a U.S. intelligence report released last week, the Global Security Newswire reported.

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