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Israeli Nuclear Reactor to Shut Down for New Year
Monday December 13 6:19 AM ET
Israeli Nuclear Reactor to Shut Down for New Year
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's top secret Dimona nuclear reactor in
the Negev desert is to shut down for two days over the New Year to
avoid possible Y2K glitches, the Yedioth Ahronoth daily reported
Monday.
It said the reactor, which Israel has kept off limits to
international nuclear inspectors, would shut for two days starting on
New Year's Eve.
Israeli officials were unavailable for comment.
The newspaper quoted an official from the country's Atomic Energy
Committee as saying: ``The citizens of Israel have nothing to worry
about. The reactors in Dimona and Soreq have been made Y2K
compliant.''
Mordechai Vanunu, a former technician at Dimona, is currently serving
an 18-year sentence for espionage after he told Britain's Sunday
Times in 1986 that Israel had built more than 200
atomic bombs at the site.
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