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Reuters: The IAEA announces that it has found most of the missing natural uranium in Libya.

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Vienna, March 25, 2023 (Lana) The Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced, Friday, that it had found most of the roughly 2.5 tons of natural uranium ore concentrate (UOC) recently declared missing from a site in Libya at that site, according to Reuters.

This came in a statement on Friday from the IAEA to member states, seen by Reuters.

According to Reuters, while the amount of uranium is less than that required for a nuclear bomb and would need to go through processes known as conversion and enrichment in order to make one, the IAEA said at the time that losing it "may present a radiological risk, as well as concerns that threaten nuclear security ".

According to IAEA statement, the IAEA carried out an inspection on Tuesday and found that only "a relatively small amount of UOC was still missing," referring to the eastern Libyan forces' statement last week that they had found the drums of UOC near the warehouse they were taken from in southern Libya.

""During the inspection, the IAEA's inspectors observed that drums that had not been present at the declared location at the time of the previous inspection had since been brought back and left in close proximity to that location," the IAEA said.

"Agency inspectors confirmed that these drums contained UOC and witnessed their transfer back to the declared location for storage", IAEA added.

Reuters indicated that the IAEA informed member states in a confidential statement on March 15, as first reported by Reuters, that 10 drums containing the UOC had gone missing from a Libyan site not under Libyan government control.

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