Turkish police seize radioactive material in Ankara raid

Police arrested four men in possession of a rare nuclear substance in its capital Ankara on Monday, according to Turkish broadcaster NTV, The Daily Sabah reports. The radioactive material in question, Californium, is worth $4 million per gram and is used mainly for nuclear warheads, nuclear energy plants and in the oil and mining industries. Turkish police captured 1kg 441 gram Californium-252 that worths more than 70 million dollar in Ankara, a very expensive radioactive element used in #nuclear fusion. pic.twitter.com/Rquf1yLdlP — Cemal (@Acemal71) March 19, 2018 Californium is only produced by the US and Russia. The four suspects, believed to be part of a larger criminal organization, reportedly intended to sell 1.4 kg of the material on the black market for $72 million. The seized radioactive material was taken to the Turkish Atomic Energy Authority, the Turkish pro-government Daily Sabah reports. There was no comment from the Turkish Atomic Agency Authority or the police.

Turkish police seize radioactive material in Ankara raid

Californium is only produced by the US and Russia.

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