IRAQI NUCLEAR FACILITIES

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Subject: IRAQI NUCLEAR FACILITIES

Not Finally Evaluated Intelligence







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FEB 91   DIRECTOR 534860







2. WHILE IRAQ HAS NO NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS, COALITION

FORCES DID BOMB ONE ISIS AND ONE IRT NUCLEAR RESEARCH REACTOR,

BOTH VERY SMALL FACILITIES LOCATED AT THE TUWAITHA NUCLEAR

RESEARCH CENTER. THE GENERAL SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS, HOWEVER, IS

THAT THE RISK OF RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION IS NEGLIGIBLE AT

BEST. ANY EFFECTS FROM THIS BOMBING ARE DEFINITELY NOT IN THE

SAME LEAGUE AS THE CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT OF A FEW YEARS AGO.

ESTIMATED THAT IF ANY

RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL AT ALL WERE DISPERSED, THE RADIATION DOSE

WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN GREATER THAN ONE REM (UNIT OF EFFECTS OF

RADIATION) AT A DISTANCE OF 100 METERS FROM THE REACTORS.

SINCE A 600 REM RADIATION DOSE IS CONSIDERED TO HAVE A 50

PERCENT FATALITY RISK, THE MERE POSSIBILITY OF ONE REM IS NEXT

TO NOTHING.







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