Citing information made available by unidentified intelligence sources, Spiegel said the plant was in an inaccessible mountain region in the west of the war-ravaged country, two kilometres (1.2 miles) from the Lebanese border.
It is deep underground, near the town of Qusayr and has access to electricity and water supplies, the magazine said in a pre-released version of the story released ahead of Saturday's publication.
It said it had had access to "exclusive documents", satellite photographs and intercepted conversations thanks to intelligence sources.
Western experts suspect, based on the documents, that a reactor or an enrichment plant could be the aim of the project, whose codename is "Zamzam", Spiegel said.
The Syrian regime has transferred 8,000 fuel rods to the plant that had been planned for a facility at Al-Kibar, it added.
In 2007, a bombing raid on an undeclared Syrian nuclear facility at Al-Kibar was widely understood to have been an Israeli strike, but it was never acknowledged by the Jewish state.
Spiegel said North Korean and Iranian experts are thought to be part of the "Zamzam" project.
Comment: Seems legitimate.
The Lebanese militia Hezbollah, which supports al-Assad's regime in the bloody conflict in Syria, is guarding the secret project, it added.
Sadly, this 'mirror' seems to only 'reflect' the views of its zionist masters and their minions, obviously, like nearly all of the West's MSM outlets. As in America, Germans are also forced to endure non-stop propaganda and neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) like this article we see above.
When one considers the positions reflected by its stories and editorials, Der Spiegel presently seems more like an openly pro-zionist mouthpiece than any legitimate source of news and information.
Of course, the most stunning turn around was with Al-Jazeera, when it was bought out a few years ago in large part by zionist interests, and suddenly went from a pro-truth, pro-Arab bias, to a blatantly slanted approach that is, in the final analysis, slyly pro-Israel (i.e., The Cancer.) It doesn't have to be blatant to work; on the contrary low-intensity mind-bending is their stock-in-trade. An insinuation here, a little lie there, an even bigger lie over here, it all adds up to a continuous flow of mind-altering relatively low-level propaganda and NLP that slowly re-builds, focuses and shapes the minds of its readers to be more 'understanding' of the zionist view.
Sadly, it works on most people, and even worse, it works well. Look around you. How many enlightened souls do you see versus intellectual zombies?
Oh, yeah, it works well, indeed.