Al Tarmia or Tarmiyah (Arabic: الطارمية) is a town on the Tigris river 50 km (31 mi) north of Baghdad, in the Salah al-Din Governorate of Iraq.
At this same site, the Iraqis built a multimillion-dollar “chemical wash” facility for recovering uranium from refurbished calutron components.
This facility was reportedly as sophisticated and clean as any in the West, and triple-filtered so as not to release any trace effluents into the atmosphere that might have led to its detection once it began operation.
As a result of the second IAEA inspection, the Tarmiya industrial center was revealed as a site for the electromagnetic isotope separation process (EMIS), a facility capable of producing nuclear-weapons-usable material.
This was a large site still in the installation stage, although some production units had begun operation and a small quantity of low enriched uranium had been produced.