{"id":2253,"date":"2023-01-16T16:31:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T03:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2023-01-16T16:31:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T03:31:20","slug":"uranium-man-arrested-over-find-at-heathrow-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=2253","title":{"rendered":"Uranium: Man arrested over find at Heathrow airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in his 60s has been arrested on suspicion of a terror offence after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/world\/482267\/uranium-found-in-package-at-uk-s-heathrow-airport\">traces of uranium were found at Heathrow Airport<\/a>\u00a0in December, Scotland Yard says.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after counter-terrorism officers searched an address in Cheshire on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The man was arrested under Section 9 of the Terrorism Act 2006, which covers the making and possession of radioactive devices and materials.<\/p>\n<p>He was released on bail until April.<\/p>\n<p>Commander Richard Smith, head of the Metropolitan Police&#8217;s Counter Terrorism Command, said that &#8220;based on what we currently know&#8221;, the incident &#8220;still does not appear to be linked to any direct threat to the public&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were continuing to investigate to &#8220;ensure this is definitely the case&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The search of the Cheshire property had been completed and police said no material that could be a threat to the public was found.<\/p>\n<p>Border Force officers discovered the radioactive material with a shipment of scrap metal during a routine screening on 29 December.<\/p>\n<p>Uranium is an element which occurs naturally. It can have nuclear-related uses once it has been refined, or enriched. This is achieved by the use of centrifuges &#8211; machines which spin at supersonic speeds.<\/p>\n<p>Low-enriched uranium can be used to produce fuel for commercial nuclear power plants.<\/p>\n<p>Highly enriched uranium has a purity of 20 percent or more and is used in research reactors. Weapons-grade uranium is 90 percent enriched or more.<\/p>\n<p>Source &#8211; RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man in his 60s has been arrested on suspicion of a terror offence after\u00a0traces of uranium were found at Heathrow Airport\u00a0in December, Scotland Yard says. It comes after counter-terrorism officers searched an address in Cheshire on Saturday. The man was arrested under Section 9 of the Terrorism Act 2006, which covers the making and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2255,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions\/2255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}