The Democratic Republic of Congo is launching a probe into the contamination of cobalt with uranium.

The Democratic Republic of Congo is launching a probe into the contamination of cobalt with uranium. The Democratic Republic of Congo is launching a probe into thecontamination of cobalt with uranium, as the world’s biggest producer ofthe battery metal responds to concerns over how much of the radioactivemining byproduct is being exported. Officials said they would test foruranium in the cobalt hydroxide that is exported in huge quantities toChina and establish a working group to look into the findings of anacademic paper published in Nature Communications and a recent FT report. FT 7th Aug 2026,https://www.ft.com/content/7c028aa0-cb64-4f71-9605-f63b83df7af4