A few days ago, 2 tons of radioactive material were heisted from a Bosnian hospital. An Islamist physician was probably minding the store. There were 19 tons of highly radiactive minerals stolen in the DR Congo and most of it is still unaccounted for, but now a river is radioactive and people are being told not to drink from it:
"Kinshasa (AFP) — Some 15 TONS of highly radioactive material have disappeared after being seized last month in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the country's environment minister said Wednesday.
"We still have no information on the 15 to 16 tonnes of radioactive minerals from the 19 tonnes seized in Katanga," Didace Pembe told AFP.
The minister said about four of the 19 tonnes had been "discharged in the Mura River".
Samples had shown the copper ore's radioactivity level to be 50 times above what is authorised. The minerals had been seized in late October and were to be buried at a secure site.
But earlier this month, the team transporting the minerals to an ex-uranium mine at Shinkolobwe, closed since the 1960s, dumped part of the load in the river.
Seven people suspected of being involved in the affair, including law enforcement officers, were arrested last week.
The Mura River is located about 10 kilometres (six miles) from Likasi, a city of more than 300,000 residents. One of the pumping stations that provides drinking water for the city draws from the river.
The minister has announced a ban on water from the pumping station.
Most of the minerals had been registered under the name of Chinese company Magma. They had come from a mine in Kolwezi, near Likasi.
Several foreign mining companies operate in the Katanga area, which has large mineral reserves, including copper ore, cobalt, uranium, gold and zinc.
Congolese uranium was used to build the US atom bomb which destroyed Hiroshima in 1945."
This sounds like the nuclear keystone cops down in the Congo.
Obviously some of it was dumped and now the area is full of radioactive rivers in the Congo.
Radioactive trucks have been seized recently at border crossings in eastern Europe. Radioactive materials are being hauled around around without any protection.
Forget the damage done by a dirty nuke.
How are the terrorists who are stealing nuclear material STORING IT and transporting it?
If terrorists are too stupid to know how to handle the nuke stuff, they don't have to set off dirty bombs to contaminate large areas.
Here's another article addressing the relative stupidity of those stealing radioactive materials.
The day has arrived to go out and buy your nuke detector key chains....