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3.
Destruction,
removal
and
rendering
harmless
3.1. Main equipment and materials used in Iraq's clandestine nuclear programme which were destroyed or rendered harmless under IAEA supervision
|
Time
Period
|
Programme
Activity |
Equipment
Location
|
Main
Components
|
Destruction
Method
|
Total
Quantity
|
| October - November 1991, IAEA-7/8 | Gas centrifuge enrichment | Engineering Design Centre, Al Furat Centrifuge Production Facility |
All detected centrifuge components and important related equipment were either removed by the Inspection teams, rendered harmless or destroyed, including: Centrifuge housings, aluminium rotor tubes, carbon fibre cylinders, complete rotor assemblies, unfinished maraging steal cylinders, molecular pumps, motor stators, bearings, frequency converters, balancing machines, centrifuge test jigs, complete oil centrifuges, oil centrifuge cylinders, centrifuge jackets, UF6 feeding system, miscellaneous parts of the machine tools, AINiCo and SmCo ring magnets, jig for MIG welder, mandrel for flow forming machine, electron beam welder fixture, rotating spindle and rnandrel for CNC machine tool, special collet and whirling head, specific fixtures for centrifuge production. |
Mainly by crushing or flame cutting. | More than 1790 components and items. |
| Electromagnetic Isotope Separation (EMIS) | Tamiya EMIS Facility, Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Centre, Daura (SEHEE) Amin (Um Al Maarik) | Vacuum chambers, coils, collectors, injector power supply, ion sources, iron systems, poles, coil-winding machines, and elements of machine tools. | Mainly by flame cutting. | More than 340 items. | |
| Reprocessing | Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Centre | Chopping machine, glow boxes, manipulators, cables for manipulators, mixer settlers, hot cells, dissolver. | The glove boxes were filled with cement. Mixer settlers were filled with epoxy resin. Hot cells, dissolver and chopping machine ware rendered harmless by cutting and removal of manipulators. | More than 40 items. | |
| Chemical isotope separation | Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Centre | Glass columns (10) and other items used in the chemical separation work. | Smashed. | More than 10 items. | |
| January 1992, IAEA-9 | Gas centrifuge enrichment | Engineering Design Centre, Al Furat Centrifuge Production Facility | Aluminium alloys in the form of tube extrusions (more than 500 tonnes), ferrite magnets, aluminium upper flange forgings (9,000), aluminium jacket ring forgings (9,000), bottom flanges (250). | Melting and mixing with lower grade materials. Ferrite magnets ware destroyed by crushing. | More than 500 tonnes of materials. |
| April - May 1992, IAEA-11/12 | Weaponisation | Al Atheer Centre | Cold and hot isostatic presses, furnaces, plasma spray systems, machine tools, vacuum pumps, power supplies. | Flame cutting; demolition with explosives. | More than 50 items. |
| April and November 1992, IAEA-11/15 | EMIS | Tarmiya EMIS Facility, Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Centre | Experimental EMIS magnet system with 9 double poles, coil winding machines and their accessories, HEPA filter elements and exhaust air filtration units. | Mainly by flame cutting. Filtration components were crushed. | More than 10 items and 285 filter elements and units. |
| November 1992, IAEA-15 | Gas centrifuge enrichment | Engineering Design Centre | 350- grade maraging steel rods and cylinders unilaterally destroyed by Iraq (76 t) were further adulterated by re-melting and diluting it with equal amounts of high carbon steel in Basra Foundry. | Melting and mixing with lower grade materials. | About 76 tonnes of maraging steel. |
Note: Many items of the equipment used in the Iraq's clandestine nuclear programme were destroyed in the aerial bombardment (January-February 1991) and were confirmed by the IAEA as not recoverable or rendered harmless.
3.2. Main equipment and materials used in Iraq's clandestine nuclear programme removed by IAEA
|
Time
Period
|
Programme
Activity
|
Equipment
Location
|
Main
Components
|
Total
Quantity
|
| From October 1991 to April 1992, IAEA-7/8/9/11 | Gas centrifuge enrichment, weaponisation, radiochemistry | Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Centre, Engineering Design Centre, Al Atheer Centre | Examples of major centrifuge components (rotor tubes, end caps, pin bearings, etc.), centrifuge rotors, HEPA air filters, computer codes, high-speed streak video cameras and their components, holding collar for the mandrel, beryllium metal, flow-forming roller, die used to manufacture the explosive lenses, parts of the CNC co-ordinate measurement machine. | More than 200 items. |
| Removal of the items after the departure from Iraq of the late Lt. General Hussein Kamel | ||||
| From September 1995 to July 1997, IAEA-28/29/30.5 | Gas centrifuge enrichment, weaponisation | Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Centre, Engineering Design Centre, Al Atheer Centre, Al Qa Qaa GE | AINiCo and CoSm ring magnets, maraging steel (17 tonnes), spools of high modulus and high tensile strength carbon fibres, cylindrical initiator, thermal batteries, wave front shape measurement device, tape with back-up of the computer codes, 32-point electrical distributor for firing set, detonators and ionisation probes, krytrons, 8-channel ionisation probe analyser. | More than 20 items and more than 200 ring magnets. |
3.3. Main buildings of the sites directly involved in Iraq's clandestine nuclear programme destroyed under IAEA supervision
|
Destruction
Date
|
Site
|
Destroyed
Buildings
|
Destruction
Method
|
| April-May 1992, IAEA-11/12 | Al Atheer Centre |
•
Carbide
(uranium
machining),
Bld.
55
|
Demolition with explosives. Bld. 33 was filled with concrete and scrap metal, the protective berm has been removed. |
| July-September 1992, IAEA-13/14 | Tarmiya EMIS Facility | •
Electrical
Sub-Stations,
Blds.
5,
38,
243
• EMIS Beta Separator Building, Bld. 245 |
Demolition with explosives/ heavy machinery. |
| July-September 1992, IAEA-13/14 | Al Sharqat EMIS Facility | •
Electrical
Substations,
Blds.
B-20,
B-27,
B-29
• EMIS Beta separator building, Bld. B-21 |
Demolition with explosives/ heavy machinery. |
| November 1993, IAEA-22 | Abu Skhair Mine | Abu Skhair uranium mine | Backfilled, shaft door welded and sealed. |
Note: Electrical power supplies to the Tarmiya and Al Sharqat sites were reduced by an order of magnitude.
3.4. Main buildings of the sites directly involved in Iraq's clandestine nuclear programme destroyed in the aerial bombardment (January-February 1991)
|
Site
|
Buildings
Destroyed
|
| Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Centre |
•
Radiochemistry
Laboratories
(Bld.
9)
*3
|
| Al Atheer Centre | •
High
Explosives
Test
Bunker
and
stores
(Bld.
33)
*2 • Offices of Activity 40B (Bld. 79) • Electrical Laboratories (Bld. 94) |
| Tarmiya EMIS Facility | •
EMIS
Alpha
Separator
Building
(Bld.
33)
• Air Conditioning Units (Blds. 21-23, 34-36, 244, 246) • EMIS Beta Separator Building (Bld. 245) • Electrical Power Substations (Blds. 5, 38, 61, 243, 228) *2 • EMIS Separator Wash Room (Bld. 225) *2 • Waste Treatment Building (Bld. 216) |
| Sharqat EMIS Facility |
•
EMIS
Washing
and
Cleaning
(Bld.
C-034)
|
| Al Qaim Uranium Purification Facility | • Uranium Purification Building (Bld. 300) |
| Jesira Uranium Processing Plant |
•
UO2
Production
Plant
*1
|
*1
-
Iraq
further
levelled
building
to
the
ground
for
concealment
of
actual
activities
(Iraq's
declaration).
*2
-
Building
further
destroyed
under
IAEA
supervision.
*3
-
Building
decontaminated
by
Iraq
after
the
war
to
conceal
previous
activities
(Iraq's
declaration).
3.5. Uranium fuel removed from Iraq under IAEA supervision
|
No.
|
Date
of
Removal
|
Element
Weight
(g)
|
U-235
Weight
(g)
|
No
of
Items
|
Uranium
Enrichment
(%)
|
Irrad.
Status
|
| 1. | 1991-11-17 | 13722 | 10998 | 68 | 80 | Fresh |
| 2. | 1991-11-17 | 3538 | 1272 | 10 | 36 | Fresh |
| 3. | 1993-12-04 | 86480 | 8648 | 68 | 10 | Irrad. |
| 4. | 1993-12-04 | 1002 | 360 | 3 | 36 | Irrad. |
| 5. | 1993-12-04 | 8150 | 6588 | 41 | 80 | Irrad. |
| 6. | 1994-02-12 | 1280 | 128 | 1 | 10 | Irrad. |
| 7. | 1994-02-12 | 11041 | 8872 | 55 | 80 | Irrad. |
| 8. | 1994-02-12 | 11874 | 11050 | 38 | 93 | Irrad. |
| 9. | 1994-02-12 | 7900 | 55 | 2 | Natural | Irrad. |
|
Total:
|
144987 | 47971 | 286 | |||
Notes:
1.
Uranium
fuel
was
transferred
to
Russia
for
processing.
2.
In
November
1991
IAEA
also
removed
63
mg
of
U-233.
3.
Uranium
fresh
fuel
components
of
323
g
(36%
enrichment)
exempted
by
Iraq
from
safeguards
and
417
g
(93%
enrichment)
were
transferred
to
the
IAEA
Seibersdorf
Laboratory.
3.6. Plutonium removed from Iraq under IAEA supervision
|
No
|
Date
|
Weight
|
Plutonium
Isotope
|
No.
of
Items
|
Origin
|
| 1. | June 1991 IAEA-2 | <5g | Pu |
-
|
Iraq |
| 2. | October 1991 IAEA-7 | Microgram quantities | Pu-238 | 2 items | Iraq |
| 3. | November 1991 IAEA-8 | Milligram quantities | Pu-239 | 6 sealed ampoules | Amersham, UK |
| 4. | November 1991 IAEA-8 | Microgram quantities | Pu-238 | 33 sealed ampoules | Amersham, UK |
| 5. | November 1991 IAEA-8 | <0.3g | Pu |
-
|
Iraq |
Note:
1.
Plutonium
was
transferred
to
the
IAEA
Seibersdorf
Laboratory.
2.
Two
Np-237
standards
(about
200
mg)
were
also
removed
by
IAEA
(November
1991).
3.
Imported
Pu-Be
source
containing
about
16
g
of
Pu
has
not
been
located
by
Iraq.