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June 21, 2011       Share:    

Source: http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israel-reveals-it-has-returned-dozens-of-kilograms-of-nuclear-waste-to-u-s-1.368793

Israel Returned Nuclear Waste to U.S.

(Ha'aretz) Yossi Melman - Israel has returned nuclear waste from its Sorek nuclear reactor to the U.S., the head of Israel's Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. Shaul Horev, revealed Monday. Israel and the U.S. signed an agreement for the return of the waste a year and a half ago. An American ship collected nuclear waste from both Israel and Turkey. The Sorek research reactor is a small, five-megawatt facility donated to Israel by the U.S. under former President Eisenhower. The waste transfer took place under a U.S. government program meant to stop nuclear waste from falling into the hands of terrorist organizations.

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