A nearly completed nuclear reactor secretly built in Syria under former leader Bashar al-Assad could have produced fissile material for nuclear weapons, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Wednesday. The IAEA found about 73 tons of natural uranium in a cache in Syria and the reactor could have produced plutonium that could be used in nuclear weapons.
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A nearly completed nuclear reactor secretly built in Syria under former leader Bashar al-Assad could have produced fissile material for nuclear weapons, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Wednesday. The IAEA found about 73 tons of natural uranium in a cache in Syria and the reactor could have produced plutonium that could be used in nuclear weapons.