TUWAITHA, June 7: UN nuclear experts arrived at Iraq’s largest nuclear facility on Saturday to begin a two-week inspection, a US official said at the site, amid fears of widespread contamination from looting.

It is the first time UN monitors, who returned to Iraq on Friday, have been inside the country since they pulled out nearly three months ago in the runup to the war that brought down Saddam Hussein.

The scientists from the International Atomic Energy Agency will assess what may have been looted from the Tuwaitha plant, but will have no role in the hunt for alleged weapons of mass destruction.—AFP