UK counter-terrorism police are investigating after shipment infected with uranium was once seized at London’s Heathrow Airport.
The Metropolitan Police pressure showed {that a} regimen screening via border officials printed a “small amount of contaminated material” on a passenger flight from Oman on 29 December.
“It absolutely shouldn’t be on a commercial airliner,” mentioned Hamish De Bretton-Gordon, the previous Head of the British Army’s Chemical Weapons Unit.
“We can move nuclear material like uranium and plutonium around the world. It’s usually done in caskets, heavily protected, occasionally by air, but not on commercial airliners,” he defined.
Uranium is a radioactive steel which is destructive to people. Media stories recommend it was once present in a cargo of scrap steel originating from Pakistan.
“What it may mean is, if London is being used to trade and prove sampling capability of what can be sold, this is very serious and if so, it’s an indicator of part of the weapons build-up we’re seeing,” mentioned Dr Sally Leivesley, a chance control marketing consultant.
UK government have mentioned investigations are ongoing and demand there is not any chance to the general public. No arrests had been made.
