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Iraq
EU to help Iraq dismantle old nuke facilities
2010-08-30
BAGHDAD - The European Union signed a 2.5 million euro ($3.2 million) agreement with Iraq on Sunday to help Iraqi scientists' dismantle, decommission and decontaminate nuclear facilities built under dictator Saddam Hussein.

Iraq has tried to clean up its 10 old nuclear sites around the country as US combat operations end seven years after the invasion to topple Saddam.
These are the facilities at which no nuclear work was done on a bomb of any kind, and no WMD. They're right next to the baby milk factories at which no biological weapons were made and down the street from the fertilizer factories at which no chemical weapons were made.
But the going has been slow since the work began two years ago. The EU programme to train Iraqi scientists and provide equipment will speed up the clearing operation which had been estimated to take up to 10 years. So far scientists have only cleared one site in central Baghdad.

'This contract will help boost the abilities (of the scientists) so they will be able to dismantle more complicated facilities,' Science and Technology Minister Raed Fahmy told reporters after signing an agreement with the EU in Baghdad.

Italy's Insubria Centre on International Security (ICIS), Britain's National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) and Belgium's BelgoProcess are assisting the programme. Both NNL and BelgoProcess specialise in dismantling, decommissioning and decontamination activities, radioactive waste management and disposal.

Up to 80 Iraqi nuclear scientists will be involved in programme.
And they'll have a new career when they're done. Win/win!
Posted by:Steve White

#2  I understand the Israelis have some experience with dismantling nuclear facilities.
Posted by: SteveS   2010-08-30 18:15  

#1  Don't forget that our Marines were guarding these "non-WMD" sites for over 8 years now. The site is bigger than 2 football fields.
The euroPEONS end up with the good end of the stick after we have done all the dirty work for them. Aholes.
Posted by: newc   2010-08-30 10:50  

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