Uranium attack in Slovakia by Daniela Simkova

Uranium detained in Slovakia was enough to create a so called "dirty bomb" said Slovak police. "The radioactive uranium was even more dangerous because it was in powder form," said Michal Kopcik, senior police official. Uranium could have been used in a different ways for terrorist attack because of its powder form, said Mr. Michal Kopcik. The explosion of this "dirty bomb" conveys an interspersion of radioactive fractions and contamination of this area. The police said that Uranium material contained both dangerous isotopes of Uranium, Uranium 235, and Uranium 238. The police action took place in Slovakia near the Hungarian border. There were arrested three suspects, one of them was Ukrainian and the rest two were Hungarians, aged in a range of 40 to 51 years. Suspects had some under the 500g of the Uranium material in a powder form. "According to initial findings, the material originated in the former Soviet republics," said Mr. Michal Kopcik. There has been an alert in the past coming from the International agencies about the radioactive material from the former Soviet republic. Pointing at the police action in 1994 in The Czech Republic and in the Russia city of St. Petersburg where were attempts to sell Uranium material illegally.

by Daniela Simkova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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