Subject: TUWAITHA NUCLEAR CENTER
Not Finally Evaluated Intelligence
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
DIST: AUGUST 1991
COUNTRY: IRAQ
SUBJ: 1. OVERVIEW OF OPERATIONS AT THE TILIWAITHA NUCLEAR
CENTER FROM 1985-1987
2. EFFECTS OF ISRAELI BOMBING OF THE SITE AND
SUBSEQUENT WORK DONE ON THE NUCLEAR REACTOR
DOI: 1985 1991
SUMMARY: OPERATIONS AT THE TUWAITHA NUCLEAR CENTER INCLUDED
URANIUM ENRICHMENT AND URANIUM PROCESSING. ENRICHMENT
RESEARCH INCLUDED ELECTROMAGNETIC, CENTRIFUGE, AND LASER
PROCESSES. WORK INVOLVING GLASS PIPES AND ACETONE WAS ALSO
CONDUCTED IN THE TUWAITHA BUILDINGS WHERE ENRICHMENT
RESEARCH WAS CONDUCTED.
THE SMALLER
SUPPLIED REACTOR WAS OPERATING UNTIL THE GULF WAR, THE OLD
REACTOR HAD BEEN MODIFIED TO INCREASE ITS POWER TO 10
MEGAWATTS AND ONE BUILDING WAS USED TO PRODUCE
HEAVY WATER, ALSO BEFORE THE GULF WAR.
IN
1985, EXPERIMENTS ON ENRICHMENT WERE CONDUCTED IN THE
LABORATORY WORKSHOP BUILDING (LWB). OPERATIONS IN THIS
BUILDING FOCUSED ON THE ENRICHMENT OF URANIUM
WORK INCLUDED EXPERIMENTS WITH CENTRIFUGE, ELECTROMAGNETIC
SEPARATOR, AND LASER SEPARATION EXPERIMENTS. ALSO IN THIS
BUILDING WAS A GROUP WORKING ON CHEMICAL PROCESSES USING
ACETONE
2. THE "HOT LABORATORIES" WERE
LOCATED IN THE LAMA BUILDING
3. A PROJECT WAS
INVOLVED IN THE PRODUCTION OF NUCLEAR FUEL.
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