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Size: 5MW[1]
Primary Function: Radioisotope production for medical purposes
Description: Argentina agreed to supply Syria with a 5MW research reactor for radioisotope production, but pulled out of the agreement in 1991 under pressure from the United States. In the mid-1990s, Argentine and Syrian officials resumed talks of the potential export of a research reactor, but in July 1995, Argentina announced that the reactor sale would be conditional on the Syrian-Israeli peace treaty.[2]

Sources:
[1] Other sources list the capacity of the research reactor to be supplied by Argentina at 10MW (Anthony H. Cordesman, "Syrian Military Forces," Center for Strategic and International Studies, 15 April 2003, <http://www.csis.org/features/syria_forcecapabilities.pdf>.
[2] Telam (Buenos Aires), 14 July 1995, in FBIS, "Government 'Could Sell' Atomic Reactor to Syria, FBIS-LAT-95-136, 14 July 1995; Noticas Argentinas (Buenos Aires), 2 August 1995, in FBIS, "Di Tella Confirms Visit of Syrian Experts," FBIS-LAT-95-149, 2 August 1995; "Syria Wants to Buy Nuclear Materials," Washington Times, 23 July 1995, via Lexis-Nexis.

	Updated August 2003