The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has indicated that it will send a team to Jordan to see if the Israeli nuclear plant at Dimona is
leaking radiation. A spokesman for the IAEA said "We have received a request from the Jordanian Government to assist them in monitoring the
radiological situation."
english.aljazeera.net
The UN nuclear watchdog has said it will send experts to Jordan to verify whether the Dimona nuclear plant in Israel is emitting high levels of
radiation,
"We have received a request from the Jordanian Government to assist them in monitoring the radiological situation," Mark Gwozdecky, spokesman for
the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said on Saturday.
He added: "We agreed to send a fact-finding mission in the coming weeks to help them determine whether there is any radiological incident."
The request came from Jordan's parliamentary health and environment committee after former Israeli nuclear scientist Mordechai Vanunu warned that the
plant, built in the late 1950s with the help of France in the southern Negev desert, could become a "second Chernobyl".
Vanunu, a former technician, served an 18-year prison sentence in Israel for revealing secrets about the plant.
Chernobyl was a nuclear plant that exploded in the then Soviet republic of Ukraine in 1986, causing the world's worst civilian nuclear accident
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The Jordanian request came after former Israeli nuclear scientist Mordechai Vanunu referred to the reactor as "second Chernobyl". The reactor built
in the 1950's with the help of France is located in the Negev desert. Israel has never allowed an inspection of the reactor nor of its nuclear
program. The IAEA has cautioned that there is no proof as of yet that the reactor is leaking radiation at this time. A spokesman for the Jordanian
government has stated that the country is free of any contamination and that the radiation levels are normal. The country wants an independent survey
to eliminate any fears of contamination.
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[edit on 9-27-2004 by Zion Mainframe]
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I thought even the US submitted to IAEA inspections...?
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ATS comes out near the top again.
I wanted to find out the wind direction to see who would be most affected by a Dimona radiation leak. The second link that came up was an ATS news
story:
NEWS: Israeli Nuclear Expert Warns of Disaster
It wasn't the information I needed but still shows how well we are doing with Google.
Anyway, I did find an article on it elsewhere:
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International Press Center
Israel Least Damaged
Dr. Abu Safiya demanded the IAEA "if they truly seek integrity" to run checks in order to discover the level of radiation in the region around the
Dimona reactor.
"If we conduct, for example, a Contour Survey for all directions to see the level of radiation and who's affected the most, we would find that
Israel is the safest, having its population localities in the north far from the reactor. In addition, 95% of the wind direction in Palestine is
northwestern, which is opposite to the Israeli population localities," Dr. Abu Safiya said.
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There you go...work the system, Jordan. If you can't get the UN via the IAEA to hassle Israel about their nuclear capabilities (which happen to be
the primary reason for the attempts to develop nuclear capabilities amongst other middle-Eastern states) by asking them to inspect Israel directly,
let them come to your yard and see if they can catch the neighbors breaking the law from there.
This leads me to wonder, though...
What if the IAEA finds contamination from Dimona and attempts to push through UN sanctions and the US vetoes? A clearer message could not be sent
from the US as to their intention to follow Israel into whatever conflict they choose to create. From there, terrorist efforts to weaken Israel's
bedfellow the USA, would quickly follow.
Everyone knows we're joined at the hip, the US has just been tippy-toeing around it diplomatically. A veto of a UN resolution to take Dimona
off-line would send a much clearer message.
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