IAEA reports 2.5 tons of uranium missing from Libyan site.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has reported that 2.5 tons of natural uranium stored in a site in Libya have gone missing, raising safety and proliferation concerns. While natural uranium cannot immediately be used for energy production or bomb fuel, each ton of natural uranium can be refined to 5.6 kilograms of weapons-grade material over time. The IAEA has not provided many details on the missing uranium, but its acknowledgment that the uranium went missing at a "previously declared site" narrows the possibilities.