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...resulting story appeared in London's Sunday Times under the banner headline REVEALED: THE SECRETS OF ISRAEL'S NUCLEAR ARSENAL. The account told how an Israeli research team, starting in 1964 with a 26-megawatt nuclear reactor supplied by France, secretly upgraded it to 150 megawatts, large enough to produce plutonium for ten nuclear bombs a year. In the process, said the article, they turned Israel into the world's sixth largest nuclear power, after the U.S., the Soviet Union, Britain, France and China...
...bits of uranium fuel are encapsulated in tiny grains made of carbon and silicon compounds. The fuel particles, which are embedded in racquetball-size "pebbles" of graphite, will remain intact up to 3600 degreesF. But the configuration of the core and the reactor's size (it generates only 80 megawatts of power, compared with 1,000 megawatts for large conventional reactors) ensure that temperatures never rise above 2900 degreesF. The MHTGR has another advantage, says Lidsky: its principal components could be mass- produced. Utilities could combine the outputs of several separate 80- megawatt modules to make one large plant...
...already had a bit of experience with gas reactors. Philadelphia Electric Co. successfully tested a 40-megawatt experimental version from 1967 to 1974. However, the Fort St. Vrain plant, 35 miles north of Denver, has had one breakdown after another during the decade since it began operation. But Lidsky points out that the plant is so big -- 330 megawatts -- that it needs as complex a cooling system as conventional plants. The reactor's large size, he says, has caused most of the trouble...
Following a Boston Magazine article on the safety of research reactors, the council asked Cambridge officials last December to study whether MIT's five-megawatt reactor was vulnerable to outside attack. The facility uses a highly enriched form of uranium which can be used for bombs...
...built Tajura Center, whose state-of-the-art research facilities were opened in 1982. According to Ann MacLachlan, European editor for McGraw-Hill Inc.'s Nucleonics Week, who has visited the Libyan facility, the Soviets have supplied a small TM4-A Tokamak Nuclear Fusion Facility, which includes a ten-megawatt research reactor and a reactor-training site. Employed at the plant are several hundred Libyans who are studying nuclear operations...