Experts cite nuclear signs at Syrian site

Independent experts have pinpointed what they believe to be the Euphrates River site in Syria that was bombed by Israel last month, and satellite imagery shows buildings under construction roughly similar in design to a North Korean reactor capable of producing nuclear material for one bomb a year, the experts say.

Photographs taken before the Sept. 6 airstrike depict a compound that includes a tall, boxy structure similar to the type used to house a gas-graphite reactor. They also show what could have been a pumping station to supply cooling water for a reactor, say experts David Albright and Paul Brannan of the Institute for Science and International Security. The facility is about 90 miles from the Iraqi border, according to the institute report to be released today.