Jpost reports
After 53 years, MKs call for emergency meeting to discuss upgrading Dimona nuclear reactor
The time has come to replace the 53-year-old Dimona nuclear reactor, according to worried officials.
Built in 1963 using technology acquired from France, the lifetime of the reactor – officially known as the Nuclear Research Center–Negev – is 40 years, according the manufacturer’s specifications.
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After concerns that Hamas has targeted the nuclear plant by firing rockets at the reactor in 2012 and 2014 and with threats from Iran, Ministers of the Knesset (MK’s) call for meeting to discuss the aged, obsolete reactor’s safety.
