第比利斯10月7日电 - 格鲁吉亚国家安全局周三表示，该国已拘留一名计划将铀-238以70万美元的价格出售给外国公民的男子。
TBILISI, Oct 7 - Georgia has detained a man who planned to sell uranium-238 to a foreign national for $700,000, the national security service said on Wednesday.
安全局在一份声明中称，这名格鲁吉亚公民被指控非法处理核材料，最高可面临10年监禁。声明还分享了一段视频，显示武装安全人员将一名男子从一辆白色轿车中拖出并在地上将其手铐铐住。目前无法立即联系到该男子或其法律代表对此事发表评论。
The Georgian citizen is accused of illegally handling nuclear material and faces up to 10 years in prison, it said in a statement, sharing a video of armed security personnel pulling a man out of a white sedan and handcuffing him on the ground. It was not immediately possible to contact the man or a legal representative for comment.
这段画面还显示，特工们用手持式辐射探测器检测了该车后备箱中的两个小容器。其中一个容器似乎装有浅色粉末。
The footage also showed agents testing two small containers in the trunk of the vehicle with a handheld radiation detector. One of them appeared to contain a light-coloured powder.
铀-238是最常见的铀同位素，虽然具有放射性，但通常无法单独用于制造核弹。
Uranium-238 is the most common uranium isotope and, while radioactive, is not ordinarily usable on its own to make a nuclear bomb.
核材料的安全是1991年苏联解体后最大的担忧之一，格鲁吉亚曾是苏联的一部分。在过去的几十年里，格鲁吉亚发生过几起涉及核材料非法贸易的严重事件。
The security of nuclear materials was one of the biggest concerns after the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, of which Georgia was part. There have been several serious incidents involving the illicit trade in nuclear materials in Georgia over recent decades.
今年2月，格鲁吉亚拘留了两人，他们企图购买价值300万美元的铀以及一批在核武器测试项目中发现的放射性同位素。
In February, Georgia detained two people who attempted to purchase $3 million worth of uranium and a cache of a radioactive isotope found in nuclear weapons testing programmes.