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Subject: Where does israel gets her uranium and Plutonium?
Amihai    3/7/2004 11:17:37 AM
I was wondering where the hell does israel gets her uranium and Plutonium for the Dimona core?
 
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Ehran    RE:Where does israel gets her uranium and Plutonium? - Amihai   3/9/2004 2:51:41 PM
very possibly from Canada as we are a major producer of Uranium. Plutonium they can make in a breeder reactor i think so they wouldn't really need to buy that.
 
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quokka    RE:Where does israel gets her uranium and Plutonium? - Amihai   3/12/2004 4:58:43 AM
possible Australia, as we are the 2nd or 3rd biggest supplier of uranium. i bet most of the uranium in brit nukes comes from australia
 
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gf0012-aust    RE:Where does israel gets her uranium and Plutonium? - Amihai   3/12/2004 5:15:31 AM
we don't sell to Israel, we sell to france. Israel is self sufficient.
 
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lquam    Air War College Paper on Topic   4/2/2004 1:26:13 PM
link Basically, up to the '67 war it (Uranium) all came from France and the mines in their central african ex-colonies--Gabon, Niger, etc. After the French cut them off they got some from SA, Argentina, and their own mines (although to this day I don't believe appreciable quantities of U ore have been found in Israel). They then got 200 tons of yellowcake through a German company from a stockpile in Belgium. They got 20 tons of heavy water for their reactor from Norway in '59, although they've transferred half of it back (the paper concludes they still have 8 tons or so unused as of '99). The paper says that the primary supplier in recent years became South Africa and notes that some may have also come from Portugal. They also apparently got Tritium from South Africa. They got their krytrons (high speed switches used for triggers) from the US (the guy who sold them escaped prosecution in the US and lives in Israel supposedly) and gave more than half of them back, claiming the rest were destroyed in conventional munitions (plausible, as krytrons do have applicability there as well, but unlikely). The suspicion is many went to SA (which presumably, since they've dismantled their nuclear program, could be verified). I'm sure some stayed in Israel and were copied. So, with the krytrons, a plutonium processing plant, and tritium, plus the tests in the south Indian Ocean in the late '90s the suspicion is that they have thermonuclear devices (which generally require testing) in addition to fission and enhanced devices. Some suggest the tests with South Africa were in fact a neutron enhanced device. And if they think they can fit a warhead on a Harpoon missile, this implies they've got the technology to make small warheads. How much of this knowledge was stolen from the US or may have even wandered into the country from Jews fleeing the USSR is unclear. --Len
 
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grad       1/6/2009 7:25:27 PM
and in some cases...they just stole it! 
 
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