IAEA Official Doubts FRY Capable of Building Nuclear Bomb
Budapest MTI 1730 GMT 19 April 1999
Vienna, 19 April (MTI) -- The International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA) does not find it conceivable that Yugoslavia has
begun to make a nuclear bomb, head of the Vienna-based organisation's
information department, Hans-Dietrich Meyer, told MTI on Monday.
Meyer is aware of American press reports suggesting that.
The official said Yugoslavia has one nuclear reactor for research, but
IAEA controllers were always present there, until the war broke out.
Meyer said he also does not believe it probable that Yugoslavia is making
a nuclear bomb because the research reactor has only heating materials,
and it would be extremely difficult to transform these for nuclear-bomb
production.
Although the agency's experts are currently not at the Yugoslav power plant,
Meyer hoped no essential change has taken place at the research reactor
in Vinca, near Belgrade, since war broke out.
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