With the help of an IAEA technical assistance project that began in 1999 and ended in 2007, Syria established a radioactive waste management facility for the safe handling, processing and temporary storage of conditioned waste from institutional applications of radioisotopes. [2] The facility is able to address and handle all the relevant waste control operations in Syria's nuclear program, including the waste arising from oil drilling, uranium mining, and phosphoric acid purification.[3] The facility is not capable of processing plutonium and does not pose a proliferation risk.[4]

Sources:
[1] IAEA-TC Project SYR/4/008, "Radioactive Waste Management Facility," Country: Syrian Arab Republic, www-tc.iaea.org.
[2] Nuclear Programmes in the Middle East: In the shadow of Iran, ed. Mark Fitzpatrick (London: The International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2008), p. 78.
[3] IAEA-TC Project SYR/4/008, "Radioactive Waste Management Facility," Country: Syrian Arab Republic, www-tc.iaea.org.
[4] Nuclear Programmes in the Middle East: In the shadow of Iran, ed. Mark Fitzpatrick (London: The International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2008), p. 78.