Monitoring stations on the Saudi border to check nuclear leakage

The chairman of the city of King Abdul Aziz for Sciences and Technologies has stated that Saudi Arabia has placed monitor station on all its borders in order to depict any nuclear leakage that might take place from the neighboring states.

In a statement to the Saudi daily al-Jazira issued on Wednesday, the Saudi official, Saleh Bin Abdul Rahman ( the chairman of the city) said that the commission which he is heading and involved in technological and scientific development in the Kingdom "had installed monitor stations on all border points of the Kingdom in order to check any nuclear leakage in the neighboring states."

He indicated the effects on the environment resulted from the depleted Uranium following the Gulf war. He explained that a team from the International Agency of the Nuclear Energy visited the position where such traces do exist and is making studies on the "damaged areas."