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Credit: Reuters/Louafi Larbi By Fredrik Dahl VIENNA | Wed Aug 24, 2011 8:59am EDT VIENNA (Reuters) - A research center near Tripoli has stocks of nuclear material that could be used to make a "dirty bomb," a former senior U.N. inspector said on Wednesday, warning of possible looting during turmoil in Libya. Seeking to mend ties with the West, Libya's Muammar Gaddafi agreed in 2003 to abandon efforts to acquire nuclear, chemical and biological weapons -- a move that brought him in from the cold and helped end decades of Libyan isolation. A six-month popular insurgency has now forced Gaddafi to abandon his stronghold in the Libyan capital but continued gunfire suggests the rebels have not completely triumphed yet. Olli Heinonen, head of U.N. nuclear safeguards inspections worldwide until last year, pointed to substantial looting that took place at Iraq's Tuwaitha atomic research facility near Baghdad after Saddam Hussein was toppled in 2003. In Iraq, "most likely due to pure luck, the story did not end in a radiological disaster," Heinonen said. In Libya, "nuclear security concerns still linger," the former deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in an online commentary. Libya's uranium enrichment program was dismantled after Gaddafi renounced weapons of mass destruction eight years ago. Sensitive material and documentation including nuclear weapons design information were confiscated. But the country's Tajoura research center continues to stock large quantities of radioisotopes, radioactive waste and low-enriched uranium fuel after three decades of nuclear research and radioisotope production, Heinonen said. Refined uranium can have civilian as well as military purposes, if enriched much further. "DANGEROUS" MATERIAL "While we can be thankful that the highly enriched uranium stocks are no longer in Libya, the remaining material in Tajoura could, if it ended up in the wrong hands, be used as ingredients for dirty bombs," Heinonen, now at Harvard University, said. "The situation at Tajoura today is unclear. We know that during times of regime collapse, lawlessness and looting reign." A so-called dirty bomb can combine conventional explosives such as dynamite with radioactive material. Experts describe the threat of a crude fissile nuclear bomb, which is technically difficult to manufacture and requires hard-to-obtain bomb-grade uranium or plutonium, as a "low probability, high consequence act" -- unlikely but with the potential to cause large-scale harm to life and property. But a "dirty bomb," where conventional explosives are used to disperse radiation from a radioactive source, is a "high probability, low consequence act" with more potential to terrorize than cause large loss of life. "There are a number of nuclear and radiological materials at Tajoura that could be used by terrorists to create a dirty bomb," said Mark Fitzpatrick, a director at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies think-tank. There was no immediate comment from the IAEA on the Tajoura facility. A document posted on the IAEA's website said it was a 10 megawatt reactor located 34 km (20 miles) east of the Libyan capital. The Vienna-based U.N. agency has been involved in technical aid projects in Libya, including at Tajoura. Heinonen said Libya's rebel Transitional National Council would need to be aware of the material at Tajoura. Once a transition takes place it should "take the necessary steps to secure these potentially dangerous radioactive sources." Fitzpatrick said the looting that occurred at Iraq's Tuwaitha center "should stand as a lesson for the need for nuclear security precautions in the situation today in Libya." (Editing by Mark Heinrich) World Libya Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (3) Jerrry wrote: It is inconceivable that people who should have known about this, didn’t. It is the height of irresponsibility that it wasn’t bombed accidentally to total destruction over the last few months by NATO. Aug 24, 2011 10:05am EDT -- Report as abuse ImIn2Jazz wrote: Well I really appreciate letting the name of the facility, the approximate location, the types of radiological inventory stored there and of course ending with the worse case scenario, the terrorist’s production of a dirty bomb with the absconded material. At the very least I hope NATO officials were given the heads up before this information was released. This is news that need not be released until that facility has been secured. On a need to know basis…I would say the advantage goes to the terrorist’s. Good one! Aug 24, 2011 11:13am EDT -- Report as abuse derdutchman wrote: The consequences are to the world. The world should help secure these materials. It should not be left to chance, fate, or luck. Aug 24, 2011 11:22am EDT -- Report as abuse See All Comments » Add Your Comment Social Stream (What's this?) 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