The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is probing whether several South Korean scientists have conducted an experiment on separating uranium four years ago, reported the South Korean Yonhap News Agency on Thursday.

Yonhap quoted sources at the South Korean Science and Technology Ministry as saying that the IAEA sent investigators to South Korea on Aug. 29 after receiving South Korean government's report that several South Korean scientists have conducted such experiment from January to February in 2000.

Source: Xinhua