cia_65780_65780_01.txt

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Subject: RESEARCH ELECTROMAGNETIC
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AUG 91 INTEL
COUNTRY: IRAQ
SUBJ: 1. RESEARCH ON THE ELECTROMAGNETIC SEPERATION OF
URANIUM AT THE TUWAITHA NUCLEAR CENTER FROM 1985-1987;
      2. OPERATIONS AT THE TARMIYA AND ASH SHARQAT SITES
DOI:  1985- 1991
SUMMARY: RESEARCH ON ELECTROMAGNETIC SEPERATION OF URANIUM
BEGAN AT THE TUWAITHA NUCLEAR CENTER IN 1985.  AFTER INITIAL
SUCCESSES WITH A SINGLE SEPERATOR, A SPECIAL BUILDING WAS BUILT AND THREE LARGER SEPERATORS CONSTRUCTED.  SUCCESS WITH THESE SEPERATORS LED TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF PRODUCTION        FACILITIES AT TARMIYA AND ASH SHARQAT.  TARMIYA WAS IN OPERATION     WHEN THE FACILITY WAS DESTROYED.
TEXT:1.
IN 1985, GROUPS WORKING ON THE ELECTROMAGNETIC SEPERATION OF
URANIUM (EMIS), LASER SEPARATION OF URANIUM, AND ON CHEMICAL
PROCESSES USING GLASS EQUIPMENT AND ACETONE, WERE HOUSED IN THE LABORATORY WORKSHOP BUILDING LOCATED NEXT TO THE TAMMUZ REACTOR BUILDING IN THE TUWAITHA NUCLEAR CENTER.
2. EXPERIMENTS WITH THE SEPERATOR WERE SUCCESSFUL IN
LATE 1986 OR EARLY 1987, AND A SEPARATE BUILDING WAS BUILT TO SUPPORT THE EXPERIMENTS.
7. TARMIYA WAS BUILT IN TWO STAGES.  THE FIRST STAGE INCLUDED BUILDING 80
WHICH HE UNDERSTOOD TO HAVE BEEN COMPLETED IN NOVEMBER 1989. AND WAS DESIGNED TO HOLD 70 SEPERATORS
PLANNED TO INSTALL SEPERATORS IN
BUILDING 90     WHICH WAS NOT COMPLETE
8.                             THE BODY OF THE
SEPERATORS WERE MADE AT AQUBA BIN NAFEE AT KHANDARI WEST OF
ABU GAHRIB.  WHICH HAD THE LARGEST LATHE EQUIPMENT
ACQ:                           1991).
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