The Apollo Affair
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The Apollo Affair - the incident in 1965 where a small US company, The Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation, or NUMEC, in Apollo, Pennsylvania was investigated for losing 200 pounds of highly enriched uranium.
NUMEC was a small fuel rod fabrication plant. In 1965, the U.S. government accused Dr. Zalman Shapiro, the corporation president, of "losing" 200 pounds of highly enriched uranium. Although investigated by the Atomic Energy Commission, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and other government agencies and inquiring reporters, no answers were available in what was termed the Apollo Affair. Many remain convinced that the Israelis received 200 pounds of enriched uranium sometime before 1965.
