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...question followed a circuitous route that began at the Savannah River weapons plant. The vast majority of the plant's tritium output ; was purified and stored for use in nuclear warheads. But some 300 grams (10.5 oz.) a year was sent to Oak Ridge, where it was packaged in uranium sponge and sold for commercial use -- primarily as a radioactive marker in biological research or as a source of light in everything from airport runways to luminous watch dials. The apparent losses were discovered when customers complained of discrepancies between the amount of tritium ostensibly exported and the amount that...
Based on CIA documents, NBC described Israel's cooperation with South Africa in building and testing a nuclear-tipped missile in exchange for a steady supply of enriched uranium. On October 26th, its Pentagon Correspondent Fred Francis told Tom Brokaw that "privately, senior U.S. officials are confirming that Israel does have a secret relationship with South Africa to build Doomsday weapons. The sources tell NBC News that Israel ignored Washington's discrete protest and appears to be expanding the secret relationship...
...intelligence officials told The Washington Post last week that Israel had given ballistic missile technology to South Africa in exchange for uranium for Israeli nuclear bombs. The previous night, NBC broadcast television footage of Israeli military officials on assignment in South Africa...
...satellite had been powered by a nuclear reactor with more than 100 pounds of enriched uranium in its core. Emergency response crews searching the area found 3000 bits of enriched uranium and a few pounds of radioactive metal. If the satellite had fallen near any populated area, people could have died...
...only Soviet satellite to fall back to earth. In January 1983, Cosmos 1402 disintegrated upon returning to earth. Some of its radiation still remains in the atmosphere. And just a few months ago, Cosmos 1900, a satellite also containing more than 100 pounds of enriched uranium 235, burned up in the upper atmosphere. Luckily, the satellite jettisoned its nuclear reactor, which is still floating in space, at a higher, longer-lived orbit...