”We don’t want any material that is attractive to terrorists.”
- Yusuf Aminu Ahmed, director of the Nigerian Centre for Energy Research and Training.
This was part of the reason given for Nigeria shipping its highly enriched uranium (HEU) NIRR-1 miniature neutron source reactor to China in 2018. There were security concerns regarding the high-enriched fuel, which was a potential target for terrorist groups.
The move was supported by the IAEA, which aimed to prevent nuclear proliferation by converting the reactor to lower risk fuel.
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