Subject: DAMAGE ASSESSMENT OF ALLIED BOMBING
Not Finally Evaluated Intelligence
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E. THE HQ OF THE PC-3 ELECTRICAL GROUP, WITH TWO
LABORATORIES FOR COMPUTER AND CONTROL, SUSTAINED ROOF DAMAGE
ABOUT TWO WEEKS AFTER THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR. MOST OF THE
EQUIPMENT WHICH REMAINED THERE WAS SAVED.
F. THE PC-3 MECHANICAL ENGINEERING GROUP
ADMINISTRATION BUILDING WAS DAMAGED, BUT NO MAJOR
EQUIPMENT WAS INSIDE AT THE TIME.
G. THE PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT BUILDING WAS DAMAGED.
H. THE PC-3 URANIUM-ENRICHMENT BUILDING SUSTAINED LIGHT
DAMAGE. IT WAS THE ONLY PC-3 PROJECT BUILDING OF MAJOR
OPERATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE LEFT AT TUWAITHA. AT THIS
FACILITY, U235 ALREADY ENRICHED TO 35 PERCENT WAS BEING
ENRICHED TO WEAPONS-GRADE LEVEL THE BUILDING HOUSED FIVE
ELECTROMAGNETIC SEPARATION CELLS
5. THE AL-SAFAA URANIUM-ENRICHMENT FACTORY LOCATED NORTH OF
BAGHDAD AND JUST NORTH OF THE AL-TAJI MILITARY COMPLEX IN
TARMIYA WAS HIT BY ALLIED BOMBS. IT WAS EQUIPPED WITH 20
ELECTROMAGNETIC CELLS LOCATED IN TWO SEPARATE BUILDINGS.
ONE OF THE BUILDINGS WAS HIT, WHICH RESULTED IN THE LOSS OF
SOME OF THE EQUIPMENT HOUSED INSIDE. DAMAGE TO THE AL-SAFAA
OPERATIONS WAS ASSESSED AT 30 TO 50 PERCENT.
ACQ: (JUNE 1991).
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