IAEA Mission Visits Georgia

 A team of inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will arrive in Georgia on June 19 on a three-day visit to hold talks with the Interior and Environment Ministers. 
 
Soso Kakushadze, head of the Nuclear and Radiation Safety Department of the Ministry of Environment, told Civil Georgia that the delegation will also look into the possibility of visiting Georgia?s breakaway region of Abkhazia.
 
Reuters reported on June 15, that the IAEA wants to send inspectors to breakaway Abkhazia to find any weapons-grade plutonium or highly enriched uranium that may have gone missing from a nuclear institute in Abkhazia. There are concerns that about 9 kg of plutonium may be missing, according to this report.

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