IAEA Tracks Illicit Trafficking of Nuclear & Radioactive Material

摘要

As of December 2003, the IAEA's Illicit Trafficking Database contains 540 confirmed incidents involving illicit trafficking in nuclear and other radioactive materials, which have occurred since I January 1993. Several hundred additional incidents (344) that have been reported in open sources, but not confirmed by States, are also tracked in the IAEA database but are not included in the following statistics. The majority of these confirmed incidents involved deliberate intent to illegally acquire, smuggle, or sell nuclear material or other radioactive material. The database also includes some incidents where actions may have been inadvertent, such as accidental disposal or the detection of radioactively contaminated products.