IAEA: About 2.5 tons of uranium lost in Libya

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a statement to member states on Wednesday that its inspectors had discovered the loss of about 2.5 tonnes of natural uranium from a site in Libya no longer under government control.

U.N. agency director-general Rafael Grossi said in the confidential statement that IAEA inspectors discovered during an inspection on Tuesday that "10 cylinders containing approximately 2.5 tons of natural uranium in the form of crude uranium concentrations had been declared (Libya)... They are stored on the site and are not there."