A Little More On the Aluminum Tubes

help me out a little. You want to know more about the ferrite magnets? Or the double pole magnets? Or are they the same thing?</>

Same Question...also, what are so-called 'Unipolar Magnets???

I've seen them advertised in scientific supply catalogs but it sounds like 'perpetual motion'!

Now don't go asking me to explain any of this. I can JUST FIND and paste. Companies sells/sold magnets (dual purpose?): Iraq Al Saddirah Company Activity Memo: An Iraqi front company; according to documents retained by UNSCOM, on May 31, 1995 signed a contract to buy machine tool production lines and accessory installations for diamond tool manufacturing from a Belarussian/Russian company, including a Plasma 700 machine, powder metallurgy technology, a production bay for diamond segment cutting tools, a diamond coating system, and production bays for soft ferrite and ferrite-barium magnets; according to Iraqi documents, some of these items were procured for Al Qadissiya, Al Karama (a missile manufacturing plant), and Al Ezz State Establishment; the Plasma 700 Plasma Spray Machine was received by Badr State Establishment and was being monitored when inspections ended in December 1998. Also Known As: Al Saddirah General Trading Co. Ltd. Program: Missile, Possibly Nuclear Belarus Company/Individual: Belstroyimpex FEA Also Known As: Program: Possibly Nuclear or Missile Date Occurred: 1995 Activity Memo: According to UNSCOM reports, met with Iraq’s Al Saddirah Company in 1995 and agreed for Belarussian firms to provide a production line for making diamond cutting tools, which can be used to make precision parts for nuclear weapons and long-range missiles, and another production line for powder metallurgy; submitted a contract for manufacturing ferrite barium magnets and soft magnets; considered a request for transferring vacuum technology and know how for diffusion pumps; during visits to the Badr site in 1996 and 1997, UN inspectors found that the powder metallurgy equipment had been delivered. Germany Company/Individual: Rhein-Bayern Fahrzeugbau GmbH & Co KG - Nuclear Also Known As: Program: Nuclear Date Occurred: January to May 1990 Activity Memo: Supplied, apparently as middle-man, 240,000 ferrite spacer magnets for centrifuges and 10,000 soft iron ring band cores, to the State Establishment for Electrical Industries (a front company for the Nassr State Establishment); sufficient for production of 10,000 centrifuge motor stators, designed to spin rotors in a vacuum at speeds up to 60,000 rpm; supplied die-casting equipment to manufacture stator coil rings, manufactured by unknown German firm; arrest warrants issued for managing directors. Date Entered: 4/26/2000 3:02:00 PM Date Last Modified: 9/12/2000 3:33:00 PM

REPORT ON THE NINTH IAEA ON-SITE INSPECTION IN IRAQ UNDER SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 687 (1991) 11 - 14 January 1992 SALIENT POINTS - The main objective of the ninth IAEA on-site inspection was to verify recent information obtained from Governments of Member States, and in particular from the Government of Germany, about the procurement of large quantities of stock materials and components needed in the manufacturing of gas centrifuge machines for the production of enriched uranium. The materials and components in question included purpose-designed aluminium alloy extrusions used in the production of centrifuge vacuum housings and molecular pumps, and ferrite magnets used in the stators of the centrifuge motors. The quantities involved, which would have been sufficient for the manufacture of the basic static parts of several thousand centrifuges, had not been included in any previous Iraqi declaration. - This information was discussed with the Iraqi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in the presence of technical experts from both sides. Subsequent to the discussion, the Iraqi authorities acknowledged the procurement of these materials and components, but stated that all had been destroyed or "rendered harmless" by melting and crushing before the beginning of nuclear inspections in Iraq under resolution 687. - Further, they acknowledged the procurement of 100 tons of the special high-tensile-strength steel (maraging steel) needed for producing several thousand centrifuge rotors and rotor internal fittings and the procurement of a few thousand aluminium forgings for the vacuum housing top and bottom flanges. The Iraqi authorities explained that in this case also the stockpile of maraging steel and aluminium forgings had been "rendered harmless" by melting before the start of the nuclear inspections and offered to present to the team all the materials which they had procured at the location where they were currently stored after being rendered harmless. - The inspection team verified and sampled the melted maraging steel stockpile and the powder resulting from the crushing of the ferrite magnets, leaving for the next inspection the remaining verifications. A rough estimate of the quantities made on-site appears consistent with the quantities procured. Full verification must await the results of sample analyses and a more accurate assessment of mass. - The results of this inspection have resolved a number of inconsistencies regarding the Iraqi centrifuge programme remaining from previous inspections. In the opinion of the experts who took part in the nuclear inspection, Iraq had not reached the point where it could start centrifuge production on a sizeable scale, but given time, it would have been successful. - However, the centrifuge enrichment programme had reached the point where the materials necessary for certain key centrifuge components had been identified, and these materials were being procured as opportunities presented themselves even though the final design had not been completely fixed nor the manufacturing process fully implemented. The operation of any production-oriented centrifuge cascade would have required the procurement of large numbers of finished components, but the nuclear inspection teams have found no evidence of this. - Initiatives taken by the German Government have greatly assisted the ongoing inspection effort as it relates to the Iraqi centrifuge enrichment programme. Looking for more recent on magnets. THESE reports I just pulled are dated from the last inspection HOWEVER, are marked updated as of 2003. So it is throwing my search off.

United Kingdom Company/Individual: International Computers Limited - UK - Nuclear Also Known As: Program: Nuclear Date Occurred: 1989 Activity Memo: Licensed by the U.S. to sell over $56,000 worth of computers for programming and production control to the State Establishment for Heavy Engineering Equipment (SEHEE) where U.N. inspectors found precision machine tools designed to be computer-operated (SEHEE manufactured magnets, vacuum chambers, ion sources and collector components for calutrons to enrich uranium to nuclear weapon grade, and was one of two agencies responsible for establishing Al Furat, Iraq's first centrifuge factory).

Germany Company/Individual: Inwako - Nuclear Also Known As: Program: Nuclear Date Occurred: 1989 Activity Memo: Supplied U.K.-made ring magnets that stabilize rotors used in centrifuge uranium enrichment, including 125 aluminium nickel cobalt magnets made by several U.K. firms, and 20-50 samarium cobalt magnets procured via U.K. firm Endshire Export Marketing and Iraqi firm TDG; found by German Economics ministry to have arranged circuitous delivery.

United Kingdom Company/Individual: Matrix Churchill Ltd. - Nuclear & Military Also Known As: Formerly known as TI Machine Tools Program: Nuclear, military Date Occurred: 1987 to 1990 Activity Memo: Greatest single supplier of sensitive computer-controlled machine tools found by U.N. inspectors at nuclear weapon sites; supplied three percent of British exports to Iraq during 1980s, including £8.5 million of machinery in 1988 alone; supplied $36 million worth of high-tech lathes, useful for cutting high-quality steel used in centrifuges, manufactured and supplied at least 34 centrifuge components to Badr General Establishment (joint venture with SEHEE to establish the Al Furat centrifuge factory) for Project K-1000; exports allegedly approved to gather intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs, even though the British government knew the exports were for military purposes, including possible use to produce components of a nuclear weapon; supplied on-site training for Iraqi technicians to use and program the machine tools; manufactured 52 turning machines found in Iraq, of which 33 were capable of being used to produce nuclear weapons; manufactured 94 machine tools found at Hatteen, (the high-explosive test facility at the Al Atheer complex, Iraq's main nuclear weapon development site) of which 50 appear to be capable of being used to produce nuclear weapons; received orders for 141 lathes worth £19 million; received letters of credit from Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) in Atlanta, Georgia, including two for £8,950,000 worth of precision machines and lathes, and £3,430,480 worth of product machine kits, for the State Establishment for Heavy Engineering Equipment (SEHEE, established the Al Furat centrifuge factory a joint venture with Badr; produced magnets, vacuum chambers, ion sources and collector components for calutrons to enrich uranium; part of MIMI); main Iraqi client was Nassr State Establishment (procured equipment for the SCUD enhancement program and for Taji [a chemical weapon and industrial arms complex which also produced components for uranium enrichment]; ran artillery plants, and linked to the Condor II intermediate-range missile project); identified by U.S. Treasury Department as an Iraqi front company; 89% Iraqi-owned in 1990.

I need better keywords than just magnets. I don't understand what I'm looking up.

N. Korea produced agreed upon banned highly enriched uranium during the 'agreement period' with the clinton administration ... right under the noses of the IAEA inspectors, and N.Korea is a smaller geographic area than Iraq. ElBaradai hasn't an ounce of credibility on Iraq, in my opinion. Decapitating and destroying the Baathist party in Iraq, then searching the entire country is the only way we will stop Saddam Insane from aquiring nuclear weapons. sadly, I suspect even the lying, obstructing, treacherous democrats know this but choose to ignore it in favor of cancelling this administration's efforts to protect us, longterm.

re: all data posted
Calpernia, are you trying to keep me up fretting all night?
Damn. I hadn't realized the Iraqis were so far along.
I think, perhaps, the time has come to "give" them a few nuclear weapons...

LOL. Sorry, before I started my telecom business, I was a professional researcher.

Sheese, I have most of this stuff in my shop!

Now all I need are the blueprints!

You really didn't need to post so much information. The rockets that Iraq claimed the aluminum tubes were supposed to be used for ( instead of nuke weapons production ) are also a material breach of UN resolutions. The pro Saddam people always miss this one.

>>>You really didn't need to post so much information

That is just me. Not just with this post. People I do business with call me an encyclopedia. People that hate me call me a wind bag. I may have made this thread even longer if I wasn't doing 5 things at once.