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Subject: IRAQI NUCLEAR

Not Finally Evaluated Intelligence







TO FACILITATE ELECTRONIC ACCESS, THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN

REFORMATTED TO ELIMINATE INFORMATION THAT DOES NOT PERTAIN

TO GULF WAR ILLNESS ISSUES OR THAT IS CLASSIFIED. A COPY OF

THIS REDACTED DOCUMENT, IN ORIGINAL FORMAT, IS AVAILABLE ON

REQUEST.







WARNING: INFORMATION REPORT, NOT FINALLY EVALUATED INTELLIGENCE.







DIST:           JUNE 1991



COUNTRY: IRAQ



SUBJ:            DAMAGE ASSESSMENT OF ALLIED

BOMBING ON THE IRAQ NUCLEAR WEAPONS DEVELOPMENT

PROGRAM



DOI:  1991







SUMMARY: THIS REPORT PROVIDES INFORMATION ON DAMAGE INFLICTED TO THE

IRAQI NUCLEAR WEAPONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FROM ALLIED BOMBING DURING

THE GULF WAR.            OPERATIONAL AND RESEARCH FACILITIES

WERE DAMAGED, RESULTING IN APPROXIMATELY           PERCENT OVERALL DAMAGE TO

THE PROGRAM.







DURING THE GULF WAR THE ALLIED FORCES' BOMBING

OF IRAQI FACILITIES INFLICTED A MAXIMUM OF         PERCENT DAMAGE ON THE

IRAQI  NUCLEAR  WEAPONS  DEVELOPMENT  PROGRAM. MOST OF THE DAMAGE

OCCURRED IN TWO FACILITIES--THE HEADQUARTERS (HQ) OF THE IRAQI

NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM, CALLED THE TUWAITHA OR AL-DIYALLA FACILITY,

LOCATED ON THE SOUTHEASTERN EDGE OF BAGHDAD, AND THE AL-SAFAA URANIUM

ENRICHMENT FACTORY LOCATED NORTH OF BAGHDAD.







ALLIED 

FORCE BOMBING INFLICTED A GREAT AMOUNT OF DAMAGE ON TUWAITHA;

HOWEVER, MOST OF THE FACILITIES DESTROYED BELONGED TO THE IRAQI

NUCLEAR POWER COMMISSION OR WERE ADMINISTRATIVE FACILITIES. SOME OF

THE TUWAITHA  FACILITIES  DESTROYED  AND  DAMAGED  DURING  THE  BOMBING

WERE:



A.  THE            WHICH WERE COMPLETELY

DESTROYED.







HOUSED INPC RESEARCH FACILITIES.







B. THE           REACTOR BUILDING AND A SMALL TEST REACTOR,

WHICH   REMAINED FROM THE TIME THAT OSIRAK WAS BUILT

BOTH WERE DESTROYED.



C. ONE PRODUCTION UNIT WAS DAMAGED. THIS UNIT PROCESSED

SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL AND  CONTAINED  TWO  HOT  CELLS  FOR  THIS  PURPOSE.

BOMBING OF THIS UNIT CAUSED SOME NUCLEAR CONTAMINATION. BECAUSE OF

THE CONTAMINATION, TUWAITHA WAS CLOSED FOR TWO DAYS AFTER THE

BOMBING.



D.  THE           NUCLEAR REACTOR BUILDING WAS DAMAGED. THE

REACTOR INSIDE THE BUILDING WAS SHUT DOWN BEFORE THE GULF WAR.







E. THE HQ OF THE PC-3 ELECTRICAL GROUP, WITH TWO

LABORATORIES FOR COMPUTER AND CONTROL, SUSTAINED            DAMAGE ABOUT

TWO WEEKS AFTER THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR. MOST OF THE EQUIPMENT

WHICH REMAINED THERE WAS SAVED.



F. THE PC-3 MECHANICAL ENGINEERING GROUP ADMINISTRATION

BUILDING WAS DAMAGED, BUT NO MAJOR EQUIPMENT WAS INSIDE AT THE TIME.



G. THE PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT BUILDING WAS DAMAGED.



H. THE PC-3 URANIUM-ENRICHMENT BUILDING SUSTAINED LIGHT

DAMAGE. IT WAS THE ONLY PC-3 PROJECT BUILDING OF MAJOR OPERATIONAL

SIGNIFICANCE LEFT AT TUWAITHA. AT THIS FACILITY, U235 ALREADY

ENRICHED TO 35 PERCENT WAS BEING ENRICHED TO WEAPONS-GRADE LEVEL.

THE BUILDING HOUSED FIVE ELECTROMAGNETIC SEPARATION CELLS.







5. THE AL-SAFAA URANIUM-ENRICHMENT FACTORY LOCATED NORTH OF

BAGHDAD AND JUST NORTH OF THE AL-TAJL˙MILITARY COMPLEX IN TARMIYA WAS

HIT BY ALLIED BOMBS. IT WAS EQUIPPED WITH 20 ELECTROMAGNETIC CELLS

LOCATED IN TWO SEPARATE BUILDINGS. ONE OF THE BUILDINGS WAS HIT,

WHICH RESULTED IN THE LOSS OF SOME OF THE EQUIPMENT HOUSED INSIDE.

DAMAGE TO THE AL-SAFAA OPERATION WAS ASSESSED AT 30 TO 50 PERCENT.







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