NTI: Country Overviews: Iran: Nuclear Facilities

Nuclear Facilities

1 Millamp Calutron

Location: Karaj
Subordinate to: The Karaj Agricultural and Medical Research Center
Size: n/a
Primary Function: Isotope Research, Research and Development

Description:

This calutron was provided by the Chinese. The existence of these devices has led to allegations that China was installing a uranium enrichment facility using calutrons at Karaj. A large hydroelectric dam located nearby could provide the facility with the great amounts of electricity it would require. However, the Chinese-supplied calutron is housed in a gymnasium-sized building that uses an unprotected ventilation system that would normally exclude it from working with radioactive substances.

Key Sources:
[1] Con Coughlin, "Chinese Help Iran Join the Nuke Club," Washington Times, 25 September 1995: Gerardi and Aharinejad.
[2] Mark Hibbs, "US Warned Not to Try Using IAEA to Isolate or Destabilize Iran," Nucleonics Week, Vol. 33, No. 41, 8 October 1992.


	Updated January 2006

	Overview
	Conversion
	Enrichment
	Fuel Fabrication
	Heavy Water Production
	Milling
	Mining
	Nuclear Power Reactors
	Reprocessing
	Research and Development
	Research Reactors, Critical and Sub-Critical Assemblies
	Waste Management
	Weaponization

	Maps
	U.S. and Hostile Powers: Iran
	IAEA Board Welcomes EU-Iran Agreement: Is Iran Providing Assurances or Merely Providing Amusement?
	IAEA Board Deplores Iran's Failue to Come into Full Compliance: Is Patience with Iran Running Out?
	Iran and the IAEA: A Troubling Past with a Hopeful Future?
	The Second NPT PrepCom for the 2005 Review Conference
	WMD in the Middle East
	Treaties and Organizations
	Iranian Regime Defiant in Face of Aug. 31 Nuclear Deadline (2006)
	Iran’s Nuclear Program: Recent Developments (2006)
	In Focus: IAEA and Iran (2005)
	Iran's Game of Nuclear Poker: Knowing When to Fold (2005)
	FAS: Iran Special Weapons Guide (2005)
	For Tehran, Nuclear Program Is a Matter of National Pride (2005)
	Curbing the Iranian Nuclear Threat: The Military Option (2004)
	Iran: Countdown to Showdown (2004)
	Shahab-3 (2004)
	A Preemptive Attack on Iran's Nuclear Facilities: Possible Consequences (2004)
	The Role of WMD in Iranian Security Calculations (2004)
	Unclassified Report to Congress on the Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions (2003)
	Iran, Player or Rogue? (2003)
	Iranian Missiles: The Nature of the Threat (2003)
	Iran and Nuclear Weapons (2000)
	Iran's Nuclear Facilities: A Profile (1998)
	Iran and CBW (1998)


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