Radioactive material was found in the luggage of a passenger bound for Iran – at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo international airport.
Russia’s Federal Customs Service ‘recently’ found 18 pieces of radioactive metal packed in individual steel casing recently after the material triggered an alarm in the airport’s radiation control system.
It comes as tension rises between Western powers and Iran after a UN nuclear watchdog report last month said it appeared to have worked on designing a nuclear weapon.
Discovery: Radioactive material found in the luggage of a passenger bound for Tehran was seized at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo international airport
Tests showed the material found in the bag was a radioactive isotope which could be obtained only ‘as a result of a nuclear reactor’s operations’.
Radiation levels in the area were 20 times above normal. An airport customs spokesman said the material had been identified as sodium-22, which can be used in medical equipment, but gave no other details.
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