Syrian Facility Resembles Nuke Reactor

[Rhino]

Report: Satellite Images Show Syrian Facility Resembling N. Korean Nuke Reactor
Wednesday, October 24, 2007

CAIRO, Egypt — Commercial satellite images show construction in eastern Syria that resembles the early stages of a small, North Korean-model nuclear reactor, independent experts said in a report Wednesday, speculating that it was the site hit last month in an Israeli airstrike.

The photos, taken nearly a month before the Sept. 6 strike, show a tall, box-like building near the Euphrates River that the report said was similar in shape to a North Korean 5-megawatt reactor building in Yongbyon.

It cautioned that the Syrian building was "not far enough along in its construction to make a definitive comparison." The photo also shows a smaller building on the river that the report says appears to be a pump station, which would be needed to provide water to cool a reactor.

The report was authored by David Albright, a former U.N. nuclear inspector and now head of the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security, and ISI researcher Paul Brannan....http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,304800,00.html

[DesertFox]

Good on them Hebes. Get ridda that stuff before it comes online.

[Beowulf]

Good on them Hebes. Get ridda that stuff before it comes online.
Israel is very good at that.

[Venus de Smilo]

The Israelis got cojones.

[hellinon]

You gotta love Israel.

[Timberwolf]

If the building does contain a reactor similar to the Yongbyon site, it would likely be a 20-25 megawatt gas-graphite reactor, large enough to make about one nuclear weapon's worth of plutonium each year, the report said. To build nuclear weapons from such a reactor, Syria would need a separate facility to extract plutonium from the spent fuel from the reactor, it said.
Yup...and now it's history, thanks to Israel. Israeli fighters and bombers traversed the entirety of Syria, took out the reactor site, and went home again, without so much as a peep from the NUMEROUS "state of the art" Russian SAM batteries along the way.

Didja wonder WHY Syria's been so quiet lately? Iran too? They have the same SAMs and they are VERY nervous that they're next.

I hope they are...

[bigred1says]

They are like John Wayne toilet paper, rough as hell and won’t take crap off of anybody.

[Rhino]

New Photo Shows Suspected Syrian Nuclear Facility 4 Years Before Israeli Air Strike
Monday, October 29, 2007

<img src="http://www.foxnews.com/images/318866/0_61_102907_syria.jpg" height=360 width=400>

A 2003 photo released to FOX News shows a possible nuclear facility in Syria four years before Israel launched an air strike reportedly aimed at destroying it.

The photo — taken Sept. 13, 2003 by an American commercial satellite — could be proof that U.S. officials may have known about the facility long before the Israeli mission. Washington has been silent about the existence of Syria's possible secret nuclear program.

"I'm sure they knew something," said David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) in Washington, D.C. "They didn't know it's a reactor, that's pretty clear. I'm sure they, in scanning Syria, came across it."...http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,306019,00.html

[DesertFox]

Kick they asses! Take they names!