(SANITIZED)SPECIAL MISSIONS IN THE ATOMIC ENERGY FIELD(SANITIZED)

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• Publication Date: November 14, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
USSR (Kalauzhskaya Oblast)
Special Missions in the Atomic Energy
REPORT
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DATE DISTR. 14+ November 1955
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2. Throughout this report, read Professor Chevchenko as Professor N.A.
Sbevchenko, Savenyagin as Lt. General Avraamiy Paviovich Zavenyagen,
Pevsnar as Pevzner, Vanikov as Vannikov.. Emilvanov as Yemelyenov,
Antropov as Petr Yakovlevich Antropov, Slavski as Slavskiy, Sunghul
as Sungul, and Volski as Volskiy.
3. Professor Starik is probably Professor I.E. Starik, and Sedemko
is possibly Sedenko.
4. Reference paragraph 2, the First and Second Chief Directorates were
attached to the Council of Ministers of the USSR.
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1. The Production of U02
In late January 1946, i.ntropov (Liu) (phonetic o Dili z)-:;) ors. _?c:dj
to start uranium dioxide 002) production as soon a.a ,cssio1e. A
the new purification and ;seduction rmeth, d were of yet known
and the cor_str?.a.ction of the 01 . ~cy_ e e'cluipx_,.Clit -mot
not capable of producin uranium .netal, you st?o zld at "least be able
to produce uranium dioxide on short order". L< quantity of 0.5 ton .of
of U02 was requested.
The necessary production facil:iti::s were hurriad1y set up with tho
support ,of the Soviet d rector, 'ie available pure !:~.7Jcs as i ion eiemen ,s was to be
a complished in th.-_oe consoc-i ve acetate prec:=_pi.t ation$ and
sub; aec;zent co-prec:_pitation with a cayr . r preci p:4 tale,
thareby iriae'ng use of the cL_ffer~e properties t' the 4t'" : Y71
6-~;h oxidation $t8{-+_?3 of pluton:rnii Lanthanum to be usefr' a.,
carrier precipitat:_'. The const'iuc-icn plan did .not offer any
clue as to the future locat_.on of the plant ss assumed,
that the Tech:', area in the rag? or o_ Che? ~;"abin: y,as chosen.
Apparently the the. _=availsh to arluton?S um prcdu c :::.can method dic
not work satisfac': ""ilv . The acetate precipi` :'ion process
highly complicateC, judging by a statement of professor Start,:'
the Soviets succe :'.vi; in developing a more say _slactor,y method
in 1951. Starik v:i ;ted Suunghul in 1951 (in 1.950, 25X1
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plutonium prob emo) and. sujs ued that they 1 hould no longer
tackle this probeim since a number of new procedures had been
developed in the me antiL e, two of which had -~rrvod very success :_ ..
b. Uranium 235 (u235) =d Uranium Hexafluoride
In early 1948,I I conduct ex-cri-mental work on
UP6 hydrolysis as ?ell as on the chemical ~)u~w:._cat ion and r i?..c . Of U235 metal. Co,,-,erating with Thia e;, his rock as limited tcc
certain aspects of the chemical o-:'cCedure, it Wa."
known that the ava ',,table UK, w..o enriched na`e ial from the
process and it was suspected o::.' containing o n,;` cierable amounts
nickel impurities.
The chemdcal purii'-ication of U'179 ^a9 p .rfor. 1:"J.11-h t).-le use (-f
the ether purifica.-.Jon mnethc.d. :i y then.) at 'lant 1 ,
Thieme constructed an experimental
opera e? satsifact'r'ily- : i t- .i a Riode1 ,-,u)4>:a;1,C ~~.e11aub3tan.' i
Hydrolysis and: reC? action T;_'3h? ;.s lay e rizA< _i ir. the hand, of
+C"l_Et 3 working at Nil 9. The ni:i.';me of the d rev, :l ng chief cod
not be determined, Reduction work w .s uper-r _ rJ oy pr3f essor
Volaki (fnu) (phonetic spel?.in).
Parallel to Soviet work on the different preble:ne, the same
projects were assi. ned to the German expert . `;.; ord:fig to &c?'-n'a.
the Germane were ehpected to dr, bbetter and tvoa.k.,
In rd-d-1949, the l- ooratory puai.f i.ca tics ? i aC 5re c to c
c::pancle? to pilot :!ant ph r. ?nr won with a ~.ri .. d caa ac-0 ,y
.{`'_ new building of Plant 12 was < ssi ,?ed. to of ect and
L, ~Tllieme inetall"d their pur c'i . ?r 3 a f _l] .'_i 3 i.?.'. 'his bu,- eff.-nh
was to 'house the entire the hydre.i
and reduction departments . ~ oquipment :tC1).kmod eatisfaaci ._ "i: j
with a model subs tr.nce.
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In late 1949,,the first containers with enriched. UFV arrived. With
a large group of I;Ioscow representatives present, the first experiment
was conducted by Emilyanov who himself kept th; record. the following
suaues were carried o7 'it consecutively: hydrolysis, purification,
and reduction. fermans had no access to the hydrolysis and reduction
sections of the buildinU. All construction wor', had been performed
by Soviet personnel and only Soviet operators were employed.
Hydrolysis of UFO (uraanium he::afluoride) to UP4 (urranium tetrachuoride
was accomplished with the use of distilled water. in the subsequent
pur: ficatioz6process, UF4 was converted into uran;yl nitrate which
was subjected to the other extraction method. in the subsequent
reduction process;. t o purified uranyl nitrate was converted into
uranium tetrachloride which was then reduced with calcium or. sodium.
Two experiments were conducted, each of them for the duration of one
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the reduction procoss. A i'reah quantity of U?6 was made available
for the second, exporiment. The total quantity of UP6 processed
amounted to soe 5t00.,_;ram3. Data on the degree of enrichment of the
UP6 are not available:. ^he Soviets appeared discontented and were
hetrd saying: "the UF i3 not yet very good." 25X1
Jon some time after termination of these experiments, no activities 25X1
were observed at the ..ilding housing the pilot plant. Shortly
aftcrwarda they were, nowcver, resumed by the Soviet;,. German
personnel had no access.
Several days after ctrr letion of the experiments, 25X1
Nil 9 ordered to gram;.,n
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own theoretical atuIy on such a pr^ojcct with special consideration
of how to avoid losses. The design submitted to him had been drawn 25X1
up by Sedemko (2 huro (= honetic spelling) who had, however, accepted
only very feer suggestions. The building; as well as the 25X1
regt?_ired fact i ie.: for U2a, production were
th.e d esi;;ns for the U235 and Pu producing plants
had been drawn up by "Ilzederako. It could not be determined where these
plan';s were to to located. Both of them are belie?:ed to be located
in the Techi arm.. The UFb was enriched by diffusion in the cascade.
The lo.ation of he diffusion plant could not; be determined. In
1952, It was learned that a co