A team from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) arrived Tuesday in southern Libya to inspect a natural uranium storage site containing 6,400 barrels, Fawasel media reported.
The site said the IAEA team arrived in Sabha airport in southern Libya coming from Vienna.
“The team left Libya after completing the inspection process for the uranium in Libya,” Fawasel said, adding that the UN inspectors also visited many other sites in the south.
Last week, Gen Khaled al-Mahjoub, head of a media unit for the Libyan National Army, the main eastern military force, said that a military team had found 2.5 tons of radioactive uranium.
His comments came after the director general of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, told the organization’s member states that inspectors had found that 10 drums containing approximately 2.5 tons of uranium ore concentrate “were not present as previously declared”.
The Libyan General said 10 missing barrels had been recovered about 5 km from the warehouse, near the border with Chad.
Mahjoub suggested that they were stolen by Chadian forces who mistook them for ammunition or weapons, then abandoned them when they realized the drums were of little use.
He said the Chadian forces raided the warehouse and may have taken the barrels hoping they contained weapons or ammunition.
