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November 24, 2008       Share:    

Source: http://www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=2352

So It Really Was a Reactor in Syria

[Institute for National Security Studies-Tel Aviv University] Ephraim Asculai - The IAEA report on Syria's nuclear program issued on Nov. 19 confirmed that the water pumping capacity at the destroyed installation was sufficient for removing 25 megawatts of energy. An energy source of this magnitude would need to burn either fossil or nuclear fuel, or it would have to consume electrical energy imported to the site. Since the Syrians confirmed "the unreliable and insufficient electricity supplies in the area," the last option is not viable. No one claimed that it was a fossil fuel electricity producing station. Any fossil fuel plant would have been constructed near the Euphrates River for efficiency reasons and not hidden inland, out of sight.

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