WINDHOEK (Reuters) - Namibian authorities have arrested four people they suspect of stealing drums of radioactive material from a mine in the country that is a major exporter of uranium, officials said on Monday.
The four were arrested on Friday in the coastal town of Swakopmund, the drums have been recovered and the material is thought to have come from Areva’s Trekkopje mine, they said.
Axel Tibinyane, regulator of the Atomic Energy Board of Namibia, said the contents of the drums are (…)