It’s OK — I accidentally throw out uranium all the time. [JoongAng Ilbo, English]
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In a perhaps related story, gigantic mishapen radioactive rats have been seen lurching around the same Kimpo landfill site.
Could this be a renewal of Park Chung-hee’s great dream? Off for more enrichment.
“The uranium? Uhh, we accidentally burned it. That’s the ticket. Yeah, we thought it was a shoebox full of old gym socks. Now move along. nothing to see here.”
I may be mistaken, but didn’t Korea lose some uranium a couple of years ago? Or was it someone enriched the uranium above the accepted level of research?
Hey, who knows? Maybe they “lost” the uranium so Roh Moo-hyun can serve the Dear Leader some 릿빈옌코차 at the upcoming “summit.”
… hey, I can dream, can’t I?
#3: Someone enriched it, and then neglected to let the IAEA know about it until four years later. This would technically be a violation of the NPT, but the IAEA pretty much accepted that the failure to disclose wasn’t part of an effort to secretly develop nuclear weapons, and dropped the issue. From the article, it sounds like the uranium they lost is the same stuff they refined and enriched back in 2000 (which the JoongAng puts at 10%… which is apparently only an average — some sources report that a very small quantity of the metal was enriched to 75%.)
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