Birine El Salam
| Birine El Salam | ||
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| Coordinates | 35 ° 34 '55 " N , 3 ° 7' 6" E | |
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 Algeria
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| owner | Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche Scientifique | |
| operator | Center de Development des Systemes Energetiques | |
| start of building | January 1, 1988 | |
| Installation | 17th February 1992 | |
| Reactor type | Heavy water reactor | |
| Thermal performance | 15 MW | |
| Neutron flux density | 2.1 × 10 14 n / (cm 2 s) | |
| was standing | February 1, 2009 | |
The Birine El Salam is a heavy water reactor of Chinese design, which is located around 250 km south of Algiers near the town of Birine. There is also the Nuclear Research Center of Birine .
Birine reactor
The reactor has an output of around 15 MW. It is a research reactor that was delivered in connection with the Sino-Algerian nuclear agreement of 1983. Just like other nuclear material. The reactor is operated with uranium enriched to approx. 3% . For this purpose, Algeria probably purchased 150 tons of uranium from Niger in 1985 . In the meantime, in the Timgaouine-Abankor u. a. Uranium discovered.
With the help of the reactor it is possible to produce around three kilograms of plutonium per year. Whether or to what extent this will happen is unknown.
Under American and Spanish pressure, the reactor was reported to the IAEA in 1992 . In January 1995, Algeria has the NPT signed (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty).
Reactor in Draria (suburb of Algiers)
In addition to the Birine reactor, the country also has the 1 MW research reactor NUR. It is located in a suburb of Algiers called Draria on the east coast of Algeria. The reactor was acquired by Argentina in 1989 . It was built by INVAP (Investigaciones Aplicadas, Sociedad del Estado). It is a research reactor for the production of radionuclides and other experiments. It is reported that fissile material which was intended for this reactor has reached the Birine reactor.
Web links
- Description of the plant
- Political situation 1998 ( Memento from February 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- Address by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Algeria On the Occasion of the Inauguration of the Es Salam Reactor on December 21, 1993. In: INFCIRC / 429. iaea.org, February 18, 2014.
- Algeria Special Weapons. Federation of American Scientists (English).
- ONLY Reactor in Algeria. INVAP(English, technical description).
- The El Salam reactor in Ain Oussera. globalsecurity.org(English).
- El Salam Reactor: Satellite Images. globalsecurity.org(English).
- The NUR reactor in Draria. globalsecurity.org(English).
- OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, International Atomic Energy Agency: Uranium 2003: Resources, Production and Demand. (pdf) In: NEA No. 5291. 2004, pp. 70 f. , archived from the original on August 16, 2004 .
- Algeria: Overview. Nuclear Threat Initiative(Skills overview, contracts and official documents).
- B. Meftah: Algerian Nuclear Power Program and Related I&C Activities. (PDF) In: Presentation at the Technical Meeting on I&C in advanced SMRs of the IAEA from 21-24 May 2013 in Vienna. May 2013 (Overview of Nuclear Capabilities and Plans).