Illegal radioactive material sparks concerns

  • 2003-11-06
  • By Aaron Eglitis
RIGA - In a development that has elevated security concerns, agents from the Constitution Protection Bureau last week seized a transfer containing the radioactive isotope known as strontium in Riga. Four people suspected of involvement in the illegal transfer were later detained at the University of Latvia's faculty of biology."This is the first time a substance like this has been found in Latvia," Dainis Mikelsons, press secretary for the Constitutional Protection Bureau, the intelligence unit of the Latvian government, told The Baltic Times.Mikelsons declined to say what technology was ...
 
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