Dinona Israel 35 14 - - UNITED STATES ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION wssumorou as o c - - This document consists of pegos opioe 861100 H33 I a E O 13292 Sec 3 5 NLJ RAG 03-22 Eva Report on 0 8 Inspection Team Visit to 1 This 'will report brie y and in a preliminary manner on 'a recent visit to Israel by a U S inspection team consisting of Richard II Cook Vice President American Machine and Foundry Compaw M Ulysses M Staebler Atomic Energy persuasion and Clyde L f McClelland Arms Control and Disarmament Agency The inspection team visited the Weizmann Institute at Rehovo the built resetor at the Nahal Soreq site the ore proce plant at Haifa and on Saturday January 18 hours at the Dimona reactor Bite -- 196R spent eve The team believes that all significant facilities at - were inspected and that the circumstances permitted an inspectiOn of the reactor which was clearly designed mental reactor with 15-32% above its des 61 9351 the acm edg ed possibility of mnemnm VB the use or only tvo cooling loops of the three available It was the impression-of the inspection team that research we present intention of the Israelis with the Dinona reactor also the impression of the team that the Dimena site and the ment located there represented an ambitious project for a com Xvith Israel' capabilities -The following is a emary of pertinent information provided Vatican and discussions LJHIWZ l iM 3 I t7 curses fro-tn I mg Q J 23 1 Iicn 53 54 be 441 1 COPY LBJ LIBRARY 1 auzcn't mc I 313This inch-dc mesa I'm nc encl deftn's r I f rl-o mooning mic-'- t - 'f 0 3 I in Base123 221 a which In on mine is en um sJ pages is menace by Icy van-qr COPY LBJ LIBRARY a I The Dimona reactor vent critical on December 26 eggs mu power 0W ate 1961 until vhich time an extensiye series of tests will be conducted - 2 37- The first core for the Dinona reactor was sup- plied by France _1uel frets Frahc'e is subject to - control and is committed tip-Mu the - French I There is a possibility that the next core could f- be fabricated at Dinona however discussions are now underway with the French to obtain a Isecond eor e iron France - - Fuel for the third and subsequent cores Ivill definitely be of hectic origin I Eere are 10 tons of uranim at Dinohe- only about one ton of which is no Israeli orea This indicates a present domestic uranium output far below U 8 previously estimated cepe - 1 bility for are processing e teazi'e' visit at the ore precessi'ng pilot plant at Haifa - confirmed 1 this IretIeI production H 'eitf e Israelis are building sufficient ere processing I Imetal conversion and mel- fabrication facilities supply their future rea'ctor fuel requirements when beyond these needed for normal research reactor operationConstruction of an irradiated fuel reprocessing 3 pilot plant has been delsyedsmall quantity of plutonium for expermental 3 - work has Ibsen supplied to Israel by Renee Ih Security control of the Dinone site iill be main 55f - tained 'at least until the plant is completed in I I year or so I at which time it iIIe' quite likely the plant will be declassi ed Ehe 11 8 Scienti c Attache from the 11 3 Dnbaasy 1n Iernel i informed the team that the Israeli Government desired no release to a third country of any intonation given to or obtained by s - 1 i the 11 8 team It considered essential to honor this request including especially the fact that the visit tookplece i'ho a - fact of the Visit and the information obtained then-em $113636 are oonsidei'ed hum genitive ban the point 0 view of v 3 31 I imter j I i on '3 - vagueRepresentati to the 7 m8 Intelligence non-1- $33 31COPY LBJ LIBRARY This document is from the holdings of The National Security Archive Suite 701 Gelman Library The George Washington University 2130 H Street NW Washington D C 20037 Phone 202 994-7000 Fax 202 994-7005 nsarchiv@gwu edu