KIEV, Ukraine -- Ukraine's security service says it has arrested a regional lawmaker and two companions for trying to sell radioactive plutonium for $10 million.
The service says the legislator and two businessmen from the western Ternopyl region were detained last week in possession of a suspected 3.7 kilograms (8.2 ponds) of plutonium-239, which can be used to make a so-called dirty bomb.Such a bomb spreads radioactive material over a wide area.The service said in a statement Tuesday it believes the material was produced in Russia during the Soviet era and smuggled into Ukraine through a neighboring country.Ukraine renounced nuclear weapons after the Soviet Union's collapse.
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