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Before joining UNMOVIC or the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which is searching Iraq for nuclear weapons, the inspectors were, among other things, military officers, chemists, bacteriologists and photo interpreters. They come not only from military-research facilities but also from peacetime laboratories, private industry and academia. Those already selected range in age from...
...addition to technical skills, team leaders look for individuals who will work well together. So that members can communicate without translators, they must speak English. Nuclear inspectors with the IAEA learn on the job at headquarters in Vienna; novices are paired with experienced inspectors once in the field. UNMOVIC inspectors get an initial five weeks of general training covering everything from Iraqi history and culture to safety and the legal underpinnings of weapons inspections. Then they concentrate in a single field, like vaccine production. They are trained in how to spot anomalies in facilities that can have both a benign...
...plans to produce weapons-grade plutonium at two civilian power plants. Although the U.S. expressed concern over the reports, and has long sought to pressure Russia to stop supplying Iran's civilian nuclear energy program because of weapons concerns, Tehran has declared its sites open to inspection by the IAEA and vowed to cooperate in order to prove that it has no nuclear arms program. Such cooperation may do for now, not least because any American military operation in Iraq would be greatly complicated by a confrontation between Washington and Tehran - Iran shares Iraq's longest borders, is a longstanding...
Teams from the U.N. and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will be particularly interested in new construction at facilities known to have produced weapons of mass destruction in the past...
TUWAITHA Iraq's nuclear-research program was based here until the IAEA removed all the facility's nuclear fuel and destroyed equipment directly tied to the weapons program. But Iraq continues to have natural and low-enriched uranium and has added structures to the site...