A military site containing what appears to be radioactive material has been uncovered by revolutionary forces near the southern Libyan city of Sabha.
Military forces loyal to the country's National Transitional Council took a CNN crew Thursday to the site, not far from Sabha in the Sahara desert. The crew saw two warehouses there, containing thousands of blue barrels marked with tape saying "radioactive," and two or three plastic bags of yellow powder sealed with the same tape.
The material has not been confirmed as being radioactive, but in 2004 the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency, confirmed that the Libyan government had yellowcake stored in Sabha.
Yellowcake is processed uranium ore that can, after extensive refining, be used to produce enriched uranium for nuclear purposes. Read More
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