| Date |
Location |
Material Involved |
Incident Description |
| 1993-05-24 |
Vilnius, Lithuania |
HEU/ 150 g |
4.4 t of beryllium including 140 kg contaminated with HEU were discovered in the storage area of a bank. Beryllium was imported legally |
| 1994-03 |
St. Petersburg, Russian Federation |
HEU/ 2.972 kg |
An individual was arrested in possession of HEU, which he had previously stolen from a nuclear facility for sale |
| 1994-05-10 |
Tengen-Wiechs, Germany |
Pu/ 6.2 g |
The material was detected in a building during a police search |
| 1994-06-13 |
Landshut, Germany |
HEU/ 0.795 g |
A group of individuals was arrested in illegal possession of HEU |
| 1994-07-25 |
Munich, Germany |
Pu/ 0.24 g |
A small sample of PuO2-UO2 mixture was confiscated in an incident related to a larger seizure at Munich Airport on
1994-08-10 |
| 1994-08-10 |
Munich Airport, Germany |
Pu/ 363.4 g |
PuO2-UO2 mixture was seized at Munich airport |
| 1994-12-14 |
Prague, Czech Republic |
HEU/ 2.73 kg |
HEU was seized by police in Prague |
| 1995-06 |
Moscow, Russian Federation |
HEU/ 1.7 kg |
An individual was arrested in possession of HEU, which he had previously stolen from a nuclear facility |
| 1995-06-06 |
Prague, Czech Republic |
HEU/ 0.415 g |
An HEU sample was seized by police in Prague |
| 1995-06-08 |
Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic |
HEU/ 16.9 g |
An HEU sample was seized by police in Ceske Budejovice |
| 1999-05-29 |
Rousse, Bulgaria |
HEU/ 10 g |
Customs officials arrested a man trying to smuggle HEU at the Rousse customs border checkpoint |
| 1999-10-02 |
Kara-Balta, Kyrgyzstan |
Pu/ 1.49 g |
Two individuals were arrested trying to sell Pu |
| 2000-04-19 |
Batumi, Georgia |
HEU/ 770 g |
Four individuals were arrested in possession of HEU |
| 2000-09-16 |
Tbilisi Airport, Georgia |
Pu/ 0.4 g |
Nuclear material including Pu was seized by police at Tbilisi Airport |
| 2000-12 |
Karlsruhe, Germany |
Pu/ 0.001 g |
Mixed radioactive materials including a minute quantity of plutonium were stolen from the former pilot reprocessing plant |
| 2001-01-28 |
Asvestochori, Greece |
Pu/ ~3 g |
245 small metal plates containing Pu were found in a buried cache in the Kouri forest near the Asvestochori village |
| 2001-07-16 |
Paris, France |
HEU/ 0.5 g |
Three individuals trafficking in HEU were arrested in Paris. The perpetrators were seeking buyers for the material |
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