IAEA Finds Uranium Traces in Syria Linked to Site Bombed by Israel

The agency found ‘a significant number of natural uranium particles in samples taken at one of the three location,’ the report said.

The logo of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is displayed at the agency's headquarters on the opening day of a quarterly meeting of its 35-nation Board of Governors in Vienna on June 3, 2024. Leonhard Foeger/Reuters

VIENNA—The U.N. nuclear watchdog has found traces of uranium in Syria in its investigation into a building Israel destroyed in 2007 that the agency has long believed was probably an undeclared nuclear reactor, it said in a report to member states on Monday.

The government of now-deposed Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad said the Deir al-Zor site that included the building was a conventional military base.