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Theft forces N-plan revamp

Toronto: Canada’s nuclear regulator is changing the way it tracks lost, stolen and missing nuclear devices that may be used in making crude dirty bombs following a pointed warning by the U.N. atomic watchdog.

Newly disclosed internal E-mails show that the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency contacted officials in Ottawa after a Canadian Press investigation raised serious questions in July about how closely the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission monitors devices.

Commission records revealed that dozens of radioactive tools — from an industrial gauge to a device used for molecular separation had gone missing in the last five years.

Reports of losses or thefts of radioactive tools are supposed to be reported to the Commission’s nuclear security division, which, in turn, sends case information to the international agency. — PTI

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