| A small amount of enriched uranium — not enough to make a bomb — has gone missing from a nuclear power plant in central Japan, the Science Ministry said Friday. Officials have been unable to locate a neutron-detecting device containing 1.7 milligrams of enriched uranium at the No. 3 reactor at Takahama nuclear power plant in Fukui state about 200 miles west of Tokyo, the ministry said in a statement. The amount missing is too small to make a bomb and not radioactive enough to pose a threat to humans, a ministry official said on condition of anonymity. |