Plutonium Found in Iran Waste Facility

Plutonium Found in Iran Waste Facility: "International Atomic Energy experts have found unexplained plutonium and highly enriched uranium traces in a nuclear waste facility in Iran and have asked Tehran for an explanation, an IAEA report said Tuesday.

The report, prepared for next week's meeting of the 35-nation IAEA, also faulted Tehran for not cooperating with the agency's attempts to investigate suspicious aspects of Iran's nuclear program that have lead to fears it might be interested in developing nuclear arms.

And it said it could not confirm Iranian claims that its nuclear activities were exclusively nonmilitary unless Tehran increased its openness.

'The agency will remain unable to make further progress in its efforts to verify the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran,' without additional cooperation by Tehran, said the report, by IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei."

(Via Salon.)