al-Kibar reactor

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Exterior view of the facility before and after the air raid

The al-Kibar reactor is a facility in Syria that contained a nuclear reactor under construction .

The plant was about 11 kilometers north of the small town at-Tibnī on the left bank of the Euphrates , about three kilometers from the Roman-Byzantine city ruins Halabiya . On the same side of the river to the south are the ruins of the Zalabiya fortress .

The reactor was probably identical in construction to the reactor at the Nyŏngbyŏn nuclear facility in North Korea . The facility was destroyed on September 6, 2007 shortly after midnight in an Israeli air strike ( Operation Orchard ).

The remains of the facility were soon leveled, as satellite images show.

In April 2008, the then US administration ( George W. Bush administration ) presented photos and videos to the public as evidence. White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said it was believed that North Korea supported secret nuclear activities in Syria. The goal was the production of plutonium .

The then Syrian ambassador to the USA Imad Moustapha denied cooperation with North Korea on Syrian soil in April 2008.

The IAEA submitted a report in February 2009: the soil samples taken during an inspection visit on June 23, 2008 contained traces of uranium, which, according to the Syrian claim, was "unlikely" to come from Israeli missiles.

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Footnotes

  1. ^ A b Reymer Klüver: North Korea is said to have helped Syria to build a nuclear factory. Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 25, 2008
  2. ↑ IAEA report GOV / 2011/30 of May 24, 2011, pp. 1 and 3 f. ('Features of the Destroyed Building')
  3. ↑ Thomas Frankenfeld: Israel's mysterious "Operation Orchard". In: Hamburger Abendblatt , April 26, 2008 ( online )
  4. ↑ Institute for Science and International Security October 25, 2007 / David Albright, Paul Brannan, Jacqueline Shire: Syria update: Suspected Reactor site dismanteled. (PDF; 1.7 MB)
  5. ↑ CIA feared Syrian atomic bombs. In: Focus Online , April 29, 2008 ( online )
  6. ↑ IAEA report GOV / 2009/9 of February 19, 2009
  7. ↑ Tagesschau, November 17, 2009 soil samples in a bombed facility - IAEA finds suspicious traces of uranium in Syria ( Memento from February 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 35 ° 42 '  N , 39 ° 50'  E