…He [Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili] called on all countries and media to pay attention to the issue and ask in their negotiations and reports that why thousands of pages, news and reports are written and given out about a country’s peaceful nuclear program, but nothing is said or written about the loss of 200 pounds of weapon-grade uranium in the US.
He made the remarks referring to the Apollo Affair in 1965 which was an incident in which a US company, Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC), in Apollo, Pennsylvania was investigated for losing 200-600 pounds of highly enriched uranium. NUMEC’s startup capital was provided by David Lowenthal, who was closely associated with Israeli intelligence and David Ben-Gurion.
NUMEC was a small fuel rod fabrication plant, producing fuel for U.S. Navy vessels that was also involved in “secret weapons projects”. NUMEC pioneered mass production of nuclear fuel paving the way to power commercial reactors for power plants. Between 1957 and 1967 NUMEC received over 22 tons of government-owned Uranium-235.
In 1965, the FBI investigated Dr. Zalman Shapiro, the company’s president, over the loss 200 pounds of highly enriched uranium. Although investigated by the Atomic Energy Commission, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and other government agencies and inquiring reporters, no charges were ever filed. More
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