Radioactive Materials Seized by Czech Police Unusable for Weapons

The radioactive material seized by Czech police last week during a undercover operation in the city of Brno, about 125 miles southeast of Prague, cannot be used for weapons purposes, a Czech official said today (see GSN, Nov. 17).

Test conducted on the material after it was recovered found that two metal rods contained depleted uranium and that three other rods were made of natural uranium, said Pavel Pittermann, a spokesman for the Czech nuclear safety office. The rods could not be used to make radiological weapons, Pittermann said (Associated Press, Nov. 21).

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