Satellite Image Shows Suspected Uranium Conversion Plant in Syria

The Sueddeutsche Zeitung has reported the location of a site in Syria suspected of containing a small uranium conversion facility that is functionally related to the destroyed covert reactor construction project at al Kibar. The compound is near the town of Marj as Sultan, near Damascus. This facility was reportedly intended for processing uranium yellowcake into uranium tetrafluoride (UF4). This facility could have been related to the process of making fuel for the planned al Kibar reactor. Israel bombed the reactor construction project in early September 2007. The facility’s operational status is unknown. However, there is suspicion that Syria may...