The Iraqis intended to use calutrons as part of a two-stage enrichment process in which centrifuges were used to bring calutron-enriched uranium from levels of a few percent U-235 to over 90 percent. See David Albright and Mark Hibbs, "Iraq's Nuclear Hide-and-Seek," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September 1991, pp. 14-23.
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