Report reveals the possibility of purchasing (dirty bomb) components in the United States

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The US Government Accountability Office has acknowledged that radioactive materials that could be used to make the country's "dirty bomb" can easily be purchased.

In a report, the American NBC network stated that the office admitted that the current security measures do not provide sufficient protection against the purchase of high-risk radioactive materials, as investigators were able, using fake licenses, to purchase these materials from two different American companies, which is enough to cause hundreds of human losses, deaths and evacuations. And billions of dollars in social and economic damages if the “dirty bomb” was made.

The report revealed that, according to the office, it became possible to purchase radioactive materials instead of stealing them, and these materials are commonly used in technological devices for medical, industrial and research purposes, but obtaining small quantities of these materials is enough to make a dirty bomb.

Radioactive materials are subject to oversight by the US nuclear regulator, NRC, which resorts to special security measures if someone buys dangerous materials in large quantities, while the accounting office insisted on stricter measures even for small quantities.

For its part, the US Nuclear Regulatory Authority said that it intends to take urgent action, including contacting manufacturers of these radioactive products and speeding changes to the rules to review purchase licenses, but it "sees no threat that requires immediate changes."

In particular, the report referred to a radioactive material incident at the University of Washington in May of 2019, which cost the building $156 million to clean.

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