U.N. Team Detects Illegal Uranium Mining
From Times Wire Reports
Uranium is being illegally mined at a site in Congo that provided the radioactive material for the U.S. atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945, U.N. experts reported.
The Shinkolobwe mine in Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly known as Zaire, was ordered closed after U.N. investigators found it unsafe in 2004.
But a team of experts monitoring a U.N. arms embargo on Congo said they had found signs of mining by private individuals.
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