IAEA says not yet contacted by Syria rebels about ex-nuclear site

VIENNA (Reuters) - Syrian rebels who have reportedly captured a suspected nuclear reactor site - destroyed by Israel six years ago - have not been in contact with U.N. inspectors about visiting it, IAEA chief Yukiya Amano said on Monday.

The U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has long sought access to a site in Syria's desert Deir al-Zor region that U.S. intelligence reports say was a nascent, North Korean-designed reactor geared to producing plutonium for nuclear weapons before Israel bombed it in 2007.