7 Held in Alleged Effort to Sell Nuclear Material
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Russian police have arrested seven people accused of trying to sell more than two pounds of highly enriched weapons-grade uranium, Russian television said.
The men, arrested in the town of Balashikha just east of Moscow, were trying to sell a capsule containing uranium-235 for $30,000, NTV television said. The suspects were charged with illegal handling of nuclear materials, it said.
If confirmed, the seizure would be the first acknowledged case of theft of weapons-grade nuclear material in Russia.
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