Photo Gallery 3, Inspection Findings 1991-1998 / Photo Gallery, IAEA Inspections 1991-1998

IAEA Inspector negotiates with Iraqi authorities to gain entryinto a production workshop in Badar. Photo Credits: Action Team 1991-1998/IAEAIAEA Inspectors scale a storage tank to get a birds eye view of the area. They are looking for lorries that were used to transport equipment. Photo Credits: Action Team 1991-1998/IAEAAction Team Inspectors examine an Electro Magnetic Isotope Separation (EMIS) machine. EMIS's are used to separate highly enriched uranium from natural uranium. Photo Credits: Action Team 1991-1998/IAEAIAEA Inspectors examine files looking for evidence of fissile material production.Photo Credits: Action Team 1991-1998/IAEA"Before and After". Destruction of a building at Al Atheer, summer 1992, under the supervision of the Inspection team. The building was used for Iraq's secret nuclear weapons programme. Photo Credits: Action Team 1991-1998/IAEAIAEA Action Team Inspector uncovers a CNC machine tool, used to manufacture centrifuge components. Photo Credits: Action Team 1991-1998/IAEAInspectors examine the remains of Electro Magnetic Isotope Separation (EMIS) equipment that had been salvaged from a bombed building. T Photo Credits: Action Team 1991-1998/IAEAThe remains of facilities used for Iraq's clandestine nuclear weapons programme. Photo Credits: Action Team 1991-1998/IAEAInspectors assess the ruins of a facility used to produce highly enriched uranium.Photo Credits: Action Team 1991-1998/IAEAInspectors made world headlines when they were detained for three days in a car park for refusing to hand over documentation they had uncovered. The team chose to wait-it-out in the parking lot rather than leave without their records. Eventually they were allowed to leave with the documents intact. Photo Credits: Action Team 1991-1998/IAEAOver a period of five months in late 1993 and early 1994, the IAEA organized and supervised the removal of all declared stocks of nuclear-weapons-grade material from Iraq's Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Centre and a nearby storage site. Photo Credits: Action Team 1991-1998/IAEA
Last update: 18 October 2014

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