DAMAGE TO IRAQI NUCLEAR FACILITI

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Subject: DAMAGE TO IRAQI NUCLEAR FACILITI

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AUG 91







REPORT CLASS 



DIST:          AUGUST 1991



COUNTRY:  IRAQ



SUBJ:     ASSESSMENT OF DAMAGE TO IRAQI NUCLEAR FACILITIES

AND EQUIPMENT



DOI:      JUNE 1991







AN ASSESSMENT OF DAMAGE INFLICTED BY

COALITION AIRSTRIKES TO SOME OF IRAQ'S NUCLEAR RESEARCH FACILITIES

AND EQUIPMENT.          AT THE AL-JAZIRA PLANT IN MOSUL

(MA'MAL AL-JAZIRA, FACILITIES 212 AND 244). COALITION FORCES

DESTROYED THE AIR CONDITIONERS AND THE U208 AND U308 RECEIVING AREAS

IN THE 212 FACILITY BUT,THE CRITICAL

AREAS WERE NOT DAMAGED.          THE EQUIPMENT

WAS SALVAGED AFTER THE CEASEFIRE

THE IRAQIS DESTROYED A PART

OF THE BUILDING AFTER THE CEASEFIRE IN ORDER TO FOOL U.N. INSPECTORS.







IN THE ADJACENT FACILITY 244.







UP TO 80 PERCENT OF THE EQUIPMENT

WAS SALVAGED







FACILITY 244 PROCESSES THE U02 FROM FACILITY

212 INTO UCL4. UCL4 IS THE PRODUCT FROM WHICH U235 AND U238 IS

EXTRACTED (OR SEPARATED).

IT IS THE

RAW MATERIAL FOR THE "SECOND STAGE" OF THE IRAQI NUCLEAR PROGRAM. THE

ENRICHMENT PROCESS.







2. THE ENRICHMENT FACILITY 411 (THE AL-TARMIYA OR AL-SAFA'

FACILITY NORTH OF BAGHDAD) WAS







BUT IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE IRAQIS HAVE SALVAGED A

GREATER PERCENTAGE OF FACILITY 411'S EQUIPMENT. FACILITY 405 AT AL-

TUWAITRA, OPERATED BY THE IRAQI ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (IAEC) AND

THE BASIS FOR THE 411 PROGRAM WAS PROBABLY TOTALLY DESTROYED.







3. THE CURRENT PORTRAIT OF THE IRAQI NUCLEAR PROGRAM IS A

CONTRADICTORY ONE.







THE PRIORITY OF IRAQI

NUCLEAR AUTHORITIES IS TO PREPARE FOR AND TO MISLEAD INTERNATIONAL

INSPECTORS.







NUMEROUS PEOPLE IN THE PROGRAM HAVE SPECULATED THAT IRAQ

MAY MOVE TO RELOCATE THE PROGRAM TO ANOTHER ARAB COUNTRY.







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