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2006 Illicit Tracking IncidentsSummary: Naons of the Former Soviet UnionNo Longer Being Updated

Report Date IncidentDate MaterialSeized/Diverted Qty MaterialsReported Origin

Materials

ReportedDesnaon

MaterialsSeize Locaon ReportedPerpetrators

01/25/2007 02/2005

89%uranium-235,

withtracesofU-234

andU-236

~100g Russia Turkey Tbilisi,Georgia

OlegKhintsagov,

Russiancizenfrom

NorthOssea

11/14/2006 11/13/2006 Cesium-137 500g Kazakhstan ChinaMaykapchagay

checkpoint,Kazakhstan

JingysMerey,

aChinesecizen

10/23/2006 10/2006Contaminated

materialunspecied ChernobylNPP unknown Rostov-on-Don,Russia unknown

09/22/2006* 02/2006

Enriched uranium;

enrichment level

unspecied

Unclear,

possibly80gunknown Middle East SouthOsseanborder unknown

09/21/2006 03/2006Stronum-90;

containedinRTGs4RTGs unspecied unknown

Norilsk,Krasnoyarsk

Region,Russiaunknown

07/28/2006 0 7/27/2008 Cesium-137 2sources Unknown (orphan sources) N/AIri&Likhauravillages,

Georgiaunknown

05/11/2006 05/2006

Radium-226,urani-

um-234,uranium-238,

thorium-234;all

contained in molybde-

numoxidecargo

unspecied Kazakhstan TajikistanNearTashkent,

Uzbekistanunspecied

05/11/2006 Unclear Cesium-137;containedinzincpowder

unspecied Kasngcompany,Kazakhstan

Iran

Alatcustoms

checkpoint,Bukhara,

Uzbekistan

unspecied

04/20/2006 04/20/2006LEU fuel pellets

(4%U-235)

2batches:5kg

and17kg

MachineBuildingPlantin

Elektrostal,Russiaunknown

Moscow-Nizhniy

Novgorodroadway,

Russia

2Russiancizens,

one was a former

Elektrostal employee

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2006 Illicit Tracking IncidentsSummary: Naons of the Former Soviet UnionNo Longer Being Updated

Report Date IncidentDate

MaterialSeized/Diverted

Qty MaterialsReported Origin

Materials

Reported

Desnaon

MaterialsSeize Locaon

ReportedPerpetrators

03/27/2006 03/25/2006 Fast neutron source 2x3cm unknown unknownPortofVladivostok,

Russiaunknown

02/21/2006 02/20/2006Radium

(unconrmed)unspecied unknown unknown

PortofVladivostok,

Russiaunknown

02/10/2006 02/01/2006RadioacveRIO-3

radioisotopeicing

sensorsunspecied Russia

Dzhankoy,

Crimea,Ukraine

Dolbinocheckpoint,

Russian-Ukrainian

border

Ukrainiancizen

01/31/2006 01/31/2006Radium-226;

contained in a sextantunspecied unknown unknown Vladivostokport,Russia unknown

* Note: likely the same incident as the frst entry in this table (frst page).