Negev Nuclear Research Center (IMAGE)

Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

Negev Nuclear Research Center

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The Negev Nuclear Research Center near Dimona, Israel is shown. The reactor under the dome (circled above) has produced plutonium for Israel's nuclear weapons, with the plutonium separated from the spent nuclear fuel in an adjoining underground reprocessing plant.

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