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Israel's Nuclear Reactor, sit-
uated west of the village of
Yavneh, in the vicinity of the
Weizmann Institute, in Rehovot,
began functioning under the di- -
rection of Prof. Israel Dostrov-
sky and Dr. Israel Pelah.
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It is designed for experiments
involving radio-activity and will
be used by scientists of the
Atomic Energy Commission, the
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brew University and the Haifa
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Technion. The site of the re-
actor, close to the sea, was
chosen so that there could
no possible danger to ma >7
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water or cultivated soil.
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as a "gaunt grey, concrete stru t
ture . . . its sides a series
fluted panels and its crown
great dome." But once insid
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nues, "is only 60 ems. high an
is at the bottom of the pool.'
He explains that the "radio
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activity is gradually absorbed as
it passes upward through the
water: at the top of the column
there is no radiation at all and
men can work there in safety."
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meters thick serve as walls for
the area. Containing barium
sulphate imported from Italy,
the mixture is 11/2 times heavier
than ordinary concrete and has
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never before been used in Is-
rael.
To draw off the two-kilogram
weight fuel imbedded within the
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wall, a huge crane lowers an
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eight-ton shield of lead through
the water, and the fuel is ex-
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tracted to be sent to the United
States for renewal. These fuel
elements, "consisting of en-
riched uranium, or uranium
235, were supplied by the U.S.
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as part of President Eisenhow-
er's program to acquaint newly
liberated lands with the prin-
ciples of nuclear energy."
The reactor parts, Gillon
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Foundry which has built sev-
eral research reactors in various
parts of the world. Part of the
electronics equipment was made
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in Israel, the plant coming to a
total cost of just over $3,000,-
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i esting materials, welds and
( astings, production of isotopes
f or medical purposes, the study
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lastics and the production of
ew plastics, preservation of
oods and the extermination of
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nvestigation of the structure of
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