Germany follows polonium trail
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The Litvinenko affair reaches Hamburg as German police widen their investigation into polonium-210 poisoning.
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Britain's radioactive poisoning affair took a dramatic new twist as officials confirmed that a close contact of dead Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko has also tested positive for radiation.
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German police said a Russian contact of poisoned former spy Alexander Litvinenko had left a trail of polonium 210 in Hamburg as his widow accused Moscow of involvement in his murder.
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DRESDEN, Germany  - Russian experts removed a large quantity of highly enriched uranium from a Soviet-era atomic reactor in eastern Germany on Monday and were flying it to Russia for processing, officials said.
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A controversial U.S. shipment of bomb-grade plutonium escorted by armed British commandos has set sail for France, despite protests from environmental activists who fear a terrorist attack or an accident.
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HAMBURG -- Traces of the rare radioactive substance polonium-210 were found at a German apartment visited by a contact of fatally poisoned former spy Alexander Litvinenko -- before the two men met in London, authorities said yesterday.
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PODOLSK, Russia, Aug. 29 -- Heavily guarded trucks rolled up to the Luch nuclear institute here on Tuesday night and unloaded five green reinforced containers holding a total of 21 pounds of uranium, about a third of it highly enriched, which had been quietly removed from a research reactor in...
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MOSCOW, Dec. 9 -- German police said Saturday that they had found traces of radiation in two apartments in the Hamburg area connected to a Russian businessman who met with Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian intelligence officer who died after being exposed to a deadly radioactive isotope.
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German officials say four people are contaminated with polonium-210, the substance which poisoned an ex-spy.
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PARIS -- A controversial US shipment of bomb-grade plutonium escorted by armed British commandos has set sail for France, despite protests from environmental activists who fear a terrorist attack or an accident. The shipment is the most contentious nuclear shipment in years with activists questioning the wisdom of transporting such security-sensitive cargo at a time of heightened risk of terror ...
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Litvinenko, shown before his illness, died Thursday. WHAT IS POLONIUM-210? Polonium-210 is one of the world's rarest elements.Comment
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The probe into the death of Alexander Litvinenko spread to Germany with police there detecting radioactivity in two properties linked to a contact of the late Russian spy.
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Traces of the radioactive isotope polonium-210 have been detected at a London stadium that hosted a soccer game attended by a key figure in the probe of the fatal poisoning of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, a British official said Wednesday.
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By CHRISTINE DELL'AMORE Polonium-210, the rare radioactive substance that fatally poisoned a Russian ex-spy, doesn't pose a threat to most.
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German police stands guard along the rails as the castor transport of nuclear waste passes by Dahlenburg, near Lueneburg, northern Germany, on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2001 on its way to the interim nuclear depot in Gorleben.
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Traces of the rare radioactive substance polonium-210 were found at a German apartment visited by a contact of fatally poisoned ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko &#151; before the two men met in London, authorities said Sunday.
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The radioactive isotope polonium-210 has been detected at a London stadium that hosted a soccer match attended by a key figure in the probe of the fatal radiation poisoning of a former Russian spy, a British official said Wednesday.