Israel will receive enriched uranium if a quality that is almost entirely fissionable under terms of an agreement signed here this week-end.
Yaacov Herzog, Israeli Charge d’Affaires, and G. Louis Jones, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, signed the agreement which provides that Israel will get a quantity of 90 percent enriched uranium for use in a research reactor now nearing completion in Israel.
The agreement amends a 1955 accord under President Eisenhower’s Atoms-for Peace program under which Israel received uranium U-238 enriched with 20 percent U-235. The upgrading of the quality of uranium to 90 percent is important to the working of the Israel reactor. The reactor will go into operation next year.
Israel., Turkey and Pakistan are the only nations in the Near East working to implement projects undertaken under the Atoms-for-Peace program.
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