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Location: 140km from Damascus[1]
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Description: Per an agreement signed between the AECS and the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy, Russia's Atomstroieksport and Nikiet will construct a center for nuclear research in Syria. The center will be equipped with a 25MW light water pool-type research reactor. The agreement also provides for Syrian students to train in Russia at the Engineering and Physics Institute.[2]

Construction of the center reportedly began some time at the end of Cold War, but was suspended in 1992 due to lack of funds.[3]

Sources:
[1] "Russia To Construct Syrian Nuclear Research Center," Moscow Interfax, 20 May 1999, in FBIS, FTS19990520001548, 20 May 1999.
[2] "Nuclear Agreement between Syria and Russia," Science, 20 July 1998; "Novosti Minatoma" ("Minatom News"), Atom-Pressa, No. 25, 15 July 1998.
[3] "Syria," Unclassified Report to Congress on the Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions, 1 January Through 30 June 2002, CIA, April 2003, <http://www.cia.gov/>.

	Updated August 2003