ML20151D773
| ML20151D773 | |
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| Site: | 05000102 |
| Issue date: | 04/29/1958 |
| From: | Shea K NRC OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL (OGC) |
| To: | Kennedy B NATIONAL ARCHIVES & RECORDS ADMINISTRATION |
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| FOIA-88-340 NUDOCS 8807250236 | |
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s " te UNITED STATES ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION Vr ASHINSTON 25 D. C.
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APR 2 91958 Mr. Bernard R. Kennedy, Dire: tor The Federal Register National Archives & Record Service Department of Archives Register Section Washington 25, c. C.
Dear Mr. Kennedy:
Attached for publication in toe Federal Register as a Notice are an original and three certified copies of a document entitled:
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Publication of the above doemment at the earliest possible date would be appreciated.
Sincerely yours, and Dispatched Kathleen H. Shea, Attorney Office of the General Counsel aig Enclosures Origital & 3 cert. cys.
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A-103 FOR LVMEDIATE RELEASE Tel.
HAzelwood 7-7831 (Friday, May 2, 1958)
Extension 3446 AEC APPROVES $350,000 U. S. GRAr FOR ISRAELI RESEARCH REACTOR Lewis L. Strauss, Chairman, U. S. etcr.ic Energy Com-today announced that the U. S. Oc.arnment will con-mission,$350,000 tribute toward the cost of a nuclear research reactor project planned by the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission and lo-cated at the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission Nuclear Center near Rehovoth, Israel.
Mr. Strauss will present a Letter of Grant, offic. tally informing the Government of Israel of the U. S. action, to Ambassador Abba Eban in the office of the Chairman at 1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., at 3: 30 p.m., Friday, May 2, 1958.
Israel is the eleventh nation to receive financial assistance from the United States under President Eisenhower's Atoms-For-Peace proposal of June 1955.
The funds have been made available to the Commission by the U.S. International Coopera-tion Administration from Mutual Security funds and will be trans-ferred to the Government of Israel upon completion of the project, which is expected by mid-1959.
The reactor is a one-megawatt heta.rageneous pool-type, being manufactured, assembled, and installed by AMF Atomics o_f 1
New York, a subsidiary of American Machine and Foundry company, AMP will also act as agent in connection with the fabriertion of fuel for the reactor.
The reactor will be the primary facility of the Nuclear Center, which will also contain scientific-support-ing facilities dealing with the experimental and applied aspects of nuclear energy.
A radio-chemical laboratory for nuclear re-search and isotope separation, a physics and electronics labora-tory, machine shops, health physics and waste disposal services are some of the other facilities which will comprise the Nuclear Center.
Israeli firms will construct the buildings which will house the Center.
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applications of radia-It also will be used, industry, en6 neering, and in ad-a nuclear reactor. associated facilities, to investigate the 1
chemistry, tion in medicine, agriculture, hysics, r.uclear physics,tists who vanced studies in solid state poperating staff includes some scienSchool o have been trained at the Internationaland Enginee The and biclogy.
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The Government of Israel has estimated t e The U. S.
$1,410,000.
l to the Israeli Government under the nuclear and associated facilities to t;e Cooperation in effect with Will lease the necessary fuetorts of the research Agreement Israel. 5258 l