URANIUM ENRICHMENT FACILITIES

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Subject: URANIUM ENRICHMENT FACILITIES

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SEP 91      CIA 886197







CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY







COUNTRY:  IRAQ



SUBJ:          URANIUM ENRICHMENT FACILITIES AT TARMIYAH

AND TUWAITHA







SOURCE:    DOCUMENTARY.



TEXT:

THE OPERATiON OF ELECTROMAGNETIC ISOTOPE SEPARATION

(EMIS)/URANIUM ENRICHMENT UNITS, WHICH THE IRAQIS CALL BAGHDATRONS

AT BUILDING 33 AT TARMIYAH AND BUILDING 80 AT TUWAITHA







A. INSTALLATION OF THE LARGE RING MAGNETS, VACUUM CHAMBERS

AND END PIECES USED IN THE EIGHT EMIS UNITS IN FEBRUARY 1990,







B. RESULTS OF ALLIED BOMBING ATTACKS ON BUILDING 33 IN

FEBRUARY 1991,



C.







IRAQIS HAD REMOVED SIGNIFICANT PORTIONS OF EMIS EQUIPMENT.

THE AREA WHICH IRAQIS HAD POURED CONCRETE IN AN

ATTEMPT TO CONCEAL THE IRON RAILS FOR THE EMIS SEPARATORS.







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