May 4, 2007
Anyone seen anything that glows in the dark?
A bit scary - from BBC World News:Pakistan downplays radioactive ad40-50 year old material would no longer be fissile without reprocessing but it would be prime media for a dirty bomb. I shudder to think of how much of this crap is circulating around the world and in whose hands...
Pakistan's nuclear authority has said there is no cause for concern after it published press adverts for information on "lost" radioactive material.
The adverts urged members of the public to inform officials if they found any "lost or stolen" radioactive material.
They were published in major Urdu-language newspapers in Pakistan.
A spokesman for the nuclear authority said that there was a "very remote chance" that nuclear materials imported 40-50 years ago were unaccounted for.
International concern over the safety of Pakistan's nuclear programme was expressed in 2004, when the country's top nuclear scientist, AQ Khan, confessed to leaking secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya.
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