NEWS: IAEA To Send Team To Jordan To Search For Dimona Contamination, page 1
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Topic started on 27-9-2004 @ 02:38 AM by FredT
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]


reply posted on 27-9-2004 @ 06:52 AM by AceOfBase
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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