Nigeria, May 16 -- The United States (US) and some of its partners, notably the United Kingdom (UK) went to Venezuela and carted away 13.5 kilogrammes of enriched uranium. The material, which can be used to fuel commercial nuclear plants or in research reactors, are from an inheritance research reactor in Venezuela. The research, which was concluded in 1991, had been in the fields of physics and nuclear sciences.

The uranium was transported 100 miles overland to a Venezuelan port, transferred to a UK cargo, the Nuclear Transport Solutions, and transferred to the Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina, US, for processing to obtain low-enriched uranium for the super power.

This is part of the on-going looting of Venezuela since the J...