[NukeNet] Israel: Plans for Nuke Power Plant

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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: August 4, 2007
Filed at 4:10 a.m. ET

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel is reviving plans for a nuclear power plant in the
southern Negev Desert, Israel Army Radio quoted the infrastructure minister
as saying.

The minister, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, said he has the support of Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert, and that the prime minister's office and the
Infrastructure Ministry have formed a joint team.

David Baker, an official in Olmert's office, declined comment.

Ben-Eliezer spoke Friday to a gathering of engineers in the town of
Herzliya, according to Israel Army Radio, which carried his remarks on its
Web site. ''The government of Israel is to make a historic decision
concerning the building of a nuclear power plant ... in the Negev,''
Ben-Eliezer was quoted as saying.

He said the project would be presented to the government for approval in
coming months.

If approved, the power plant would take about eight years to complete, the
radio said.

The construction of a nuclear power plant could draw renewed attention to
what is widely believed to be Israel's nuclear weapons program. Following a
policy that it calls ''nuclear ambiguity,'' Israel has never acknowledged or
denied having a nuclear weapons program.
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