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Primary Function: Electricity production
Description: As part of the Comprehensive Cooperation Agreement signed by Russia and Syria in 1997, the two countries have concluded a deal, which stipulates that Russia will build Syria two nuclear reactors to be used for electricity production.[1] This cooperation will enable Syria to construct a "competent nuclear facility" to monitor all kinds of nuclear energy and its uses.[2]

Sources:
[1] It is unclear whether the agreement stipulates the construction of a research or a power reactor. While the Dubayy Al-Bayan source claims that the reactors will be used for electricity production, which suggests a power reactor, another source claims that the agreement entails the construction of a 25MW light water research reactor, which is unsuitable for electricity production ("Russian Nuclear Assistance to Syria: Scam or Scandal?" Middle East Intelligence Bulletin, Vol. 5, No. 1, January 2003, <http://www.meib.org/articles/0301_s1.htm>).
[2] Dubayy Al Bayan, 23 May 1999, in FBIS, "Syria Gets Nuclear Reactors from Russia," FTS19990530000096, 30 May 1999.

	Updated August 2003