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  • Terrorist Access to Nuclear Site Feared("keeping the..thing together with gum and tape")

    09/18/2006 6:26:30 AM PDT · by fight_truth_decay · 20 replies · 675+ views
    LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH ^ | September 18, 2006 | By Bojan Pancevski
    VIENNA, Austria -- More than two tons of radioactive material stored in a rundown research facility in Serbia offer an easy target for terrorists seeking to build a "dirty bomb," according to the United Nations' nuclear watchdog. Nuclear inspectors have branded the lightly guarded storage facility at a communist-era reactor, which closed 22 years ago, the world's most dangerous disused nuclear site -- because of the potency of the material and the risk of leakage. The outdated facility is on a 48-acre site at the Institute of Nuclear Sciences in Vinca, 10 miles outside the capital, Belgrade, surrounded by a...