IRAQ FACILITIES

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Subject: IRAQ FACILITIES

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REFORMATTED TO ELIMINATE INFORMATION THAT DOES NOT PERTAIN

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JUN 91







THE CRITICAL AREAS OF THE 212 FACILITY WERE NOT

DAMAGED.          FACILITY 212 PROCESSES U208

AND U308 INTO U02. THE RAW U208 AND U308 IS A BY-PRODUCT OF

AL-AKARHAT FERTILIZER PLANT, NOT ITSELF PART OF THE IRAQI

NUCLEAR PROGRAM.

8.          FACILITY 244, WHICH IS ADJACENT TO

212, SUFFERED NO MORE THAN 20# AGGREGATE DAMAGE.

THAT FACILITY 244 PROCESSES THE U02 FROM FACILITY 212 INTO "THE

FOURTH CHLORIDE OF URANIUM" (UCL4).







9.          (ENRICHMENT) FACILITY 411 (THE

AL-TARMIYA OR AL-SAFA' FACILITY NORTH OF BAGHDAD) TO BE

APPROXIMATELY 60-70# DESTROYED. FACILITY 411 IS ONE OF TWO

URANIUM ENRICHMENT (OR SEPARATION) FACILITIES POSSESSED BY THE

IRAQIS AND USES THE "MAGNETIC FIELD SEPARATION ENRICHMENT

PROCESS", INDIGENOUSLY INNOVATED IN IRAQ. FACILITY 411 USE TO

BE A RELATIVELY SMALL LABORATORY WHICH WAS LATER EXPANDED.

SIGNIFICANTLY,          DAMAGE TO THE

BUILDING TO BE 60-70#,          IT WAS POSSIBLE THAT

THE IRAQIS HAD SALVAGED A HIGHER PERCENTAGE OF FACILITY 411'S

EQUIPMENT.

10. FACILITY 405, AT AL-TUWAITHA, OPERATED BY THE IRAQI

ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (IAEC) AND THE BASIS FOR THE 411

PROGRAM. WAS PROBABLY TOTALLY DESTROYED







NOT

AT ALL DAMAGED OR EVEN STRUCK BY COALITION AIRSTRIKES. THIS IS

THE CENTER FOR ENGINEERING DESIGN. (MERKAZ TASAMIM

AL-HANDASSIYA), LOCATED IN RASHIDIYYA, NEAR BAGHDAD (30 KM

NORTH OF TOWN). THE CENTER FOR ENGINEERING DESIGN (CED), IS

THE COVER NAME FOR THE SECOND URANIUM ENRICHMENT FACILITY

POSSESSED BY THE IRAQS (ALONG WITH AL-TARMIYA). THE CED IS

LOCATED ON A TOURIST ISLAND IN THE OLD WATER RESEARCH BLDG.

THIS FACILITY, WHICH HAS NO

NUMBER DESIGNATION, USES A PRIMITIVE CENTRIFUGE METHOD OF

ENRICHMENT

THE CEO WAS NEITHER DAMAGED NOR EVEN CAMOUFLAGED

DURING THE WAR. THE FACILITY CAN SEPARATE U235 FROM U238.

12.          THAT FACILITY 555, (THE "AL-FAJR" FACILITY

LOCATED AT AL-SHIRGAT IN JABAL MAKHUL), WAS PERHAPS 20-30#

DESTROYED.          HOWEVER, THAT THIS WAS A ILLUSORY

ACCOMPLISHMENT AS FACILITY 555 HAD ALMOST NO EQUIPMENT IN IT AT

THE TIME OF THE AIRSTRIKES.          FACILITY

555 IS THE SUBSTITUTE FACILITY FOR FACILITY 411, THE AL-TARMIYA

ENRICHMENT FACILITY.

13.          FACILITIES 409 AND 416 WERE NOT DAMAGED

AT ALL BY THE AIRSTRIKES. FACILITY 409, (MA'MAL AL-RABIA' IN

ZAHFARANIYYA NEAR AL-TUR), PRODUCES HIGH TECHNOLOGY EQUIPMENT

FOR USE BY THE IRAQI NUCLEAR PROGRAM. MA'MAL DIJLA, WHICH IS

CO-LOCATED WITH MA'MAL AL-RABIA', MANUFACTURES POWER AND

CONTROL EQUIPMENT FOR THE NUCLEAR PROJECT, IT TOO WAS

UNDAMAGED. FACILITY 416, THE STORAGE AND WAREHOUSE AREA AT

Al -TUWAITHA SOUTH OF BAGHDA, WAS NOT AT ALL DESTROYED.







14. FACILITY 190 AT

AL-MUSAYIN, THE MA'MAL AL-ATHIR, WAS ONLY SLIGHTLY DAMAGED

(10#).          THIS NEWS HIGHLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT IS AT

FACILITY 190 THAT THE IRAQIS WILL, OR ARE, ATTEMPT TO

MANUFACTURE A NUCLEAR DEVICE. THIS IS THE FINAL

STAGE -ASSEMBLY.







16. IN THE ADJACENT FACILITY 244, 40# OF THE BUILDING

STRUCTURES WERE DESTROYED.







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