04' Flashback: Iraq nuke materiels moved to Oak Ridge

Oak Ridger

...DOE only confirmed that 20 experts from its national laboratory complex packaged 1.77 metric tons of low-enriched uranium and roughly 1,000 highly radioactive sources from a former Iraqi nuclear research facility...

...The Iraqi nuclear research complex where the materials came from "was once a central institution for Iraq's nuclear weapons program before being dismantled in the early 1990s, following the first Gulf War," according to federal officials...