South Africa nuclear research facility admits to second break-in

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Source: Deutsche Presse-Agentur

Johannesburg - Not one but two groups of intruders managed to breach security at South Africa's Pelindaba nuclear research facility last week, when armed robbers stormed the control room and shot and injured a worker, it emerged Tuesday. Briefing the media on the embarrassing security breakdown at Pelindaba, near Pretoria, in the early hours of Thursday, South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (NECSA) head Rob Adam revealed that the western section of the plant had also been breached.

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Gerber had tried to tackle a group of armed men who managed to get into the electronically-sealed control room and were making for the control panel, he told Pretoria News in a hospital interview.

The four gunmen made off with a computer, Tuesday's press conference heard.

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Weapons-grade uranium is still stored at the site under international supervision, according to unconfirmed reports.

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