IRAQI NUCLEAR

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Subject: IRAQI NUCLEAR

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DIRECTOR 736891







SUBJECT: SPECIAL BRIEFINGS







IN ADDITION TO ATTEMPTING TO BUILD HIGH-

SPEED CENTRIFUGES TO ENRICH URANIUM, IRAQ ALSO HAD DEVELOPED

ELECTROMAGNETIC ISOTOPE SEPARATION (EMIS), ALSO KNOWN AS THE CALUTRON

METHOD.







IRAQ HAD REPORTEDLY PRODUCED ENOUGH MATERIAL FOR A

NUCLEAR EXPLOSIVE TEST--ESTIMATED TO BE ABOUT 25 TO 30 KILOGRAMS.

BAGHDAD WAS OPERATING APPROXIMATELY 25 CALUTRON UNITS; 20 AT TARMIYA

WHERE URANIUM WAS ENRICHED TO 35 PERCENT, AND 5  AT  TUWAITHA  WHERE

ENRICHMENT LEVELS OF APPROXIMATELY 95 PERCENT WERE ACHIEVED.







FACILITIES INVOLVED WITH THE NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM ARE:

 --A FACILITY IN BAGHDAD ACROSS FROM THE SHERATON AND MERIDIAN

HOTELS. THIS IS THE NEW HEADQUARTERS OF THE WEAPONS PROGRAM.







THIS SITE WAS NOT BOMBED

DURING THE WAR

  --A SITE AT MUSAIB (JUST SOUTH OF BAGHDAD) KNOWN AS THE AL

ATHEER PLANT, WHERE IRAQ REPORTEDLY WAS  TO  CONSTRUCT  ITS  NUCLEAR

WEAPONS. THIS SITE WAS NOT BOMBED AND WAS RECENTLY COMPLETED.

HOWEVER, THE IRAQIS EXPECTED THE SITE TO BE BOMBED AND MOVED

MATERIALS FROM THE FACILITY.







--AN AREA OF TUWAITHA KNOWN AS AL SALEEL, WHICH WAS THE

HEADQUARTERS OF IRAQ'S NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM. ONE FACILITY IN AL

SALEEL CONTAINED THE 5 CALUTRONS THAT WERE USED  TO  ENRICH  URANIUM

FROM 35 TO 95 PERCENT.

 --LOCATIONS KNOWN AS AL RABBIYAH AND AL DIJJLA. BOTH ARE

LOCATED IN OR NEAR ZAFARANIYAH, A SUBURB OF BAGHDAD. AL RABBIYAH WAS

A MECHANICAL WORKSHOP FOR PRODUCTION OF CALUTRONS. 5 OR 6

COMPUTERIZED MACHINE TOOLS ARE LOCATED HERE THAT PROBABLY WERE NOT

MOVED IN PREPARATION FOR IAEA INSPECTIONS. AL DIJJLA IS WHERE  POWER

SUPPLIES WERE PRODUCED FOR CALUTRONS. THE FACILITY WAS REPORTEDLY

CLEANED OUT IN ANTICIPATION OF INSPECTIONS. NEITHER SITE WAS DAMAGED

BY BOMBING.

--TARMIYA, ALSO KNOWN AS THE AL SAFAA PLANT, WAS THE SITE OF 20

CALUTRONS USED TO ENRICH URANIUM TO 35 PERCENT. THESE WERE LOCATED

IN 2 BUILDINGS AT THE SITE. IRAQ ALSO CONDUCTS PHYSICS RESEARCH AT

TARMIYA.

--A LOCATION IMMEDIATELY OUTSIDE TUWAITHA WHERE PARTS FOR THE

ENRICHMENT PROGRAM WERE REPORTEDLY STORED. THIS BUILDING WAS NOT

BOMBED.

 --THE AL JAZIRAH PLANT, LOCATED NEAR MOSUL. THIS PLANT

CONVERTED URANIUM FEED MATERIAL INTO URANIUM TETRACHLORIDE WHICH THEN

SERVED AS FEED MATERIAL FOR THE CALUTRONS AT TARMIYA.







IRAQ HAD PRODUCED 25-30 KILOGRAMS OF ENRICHED

URANIUM.







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