Israel Mulls Building Nuclear Plant

Israel's Ministry of National Infrastructure has commissioned an external body to conduct a feasibility study for the building of a nuclear power plant.

The study will examine plans for Israel's Electric Corporation to construct a nuclear power plant in southern Israel, that will provide 1,200 megawatts constituting 10 percent of the corporation's mass production.

It will also focus on declaring the area where the plant will be constructed ex-territorial, an area over which Israel hold no sovereignty.


This would allow Israel to sidestep issues concerning its refusal to sign international nuclear treaties subject to the scrutiny of international observers.

Last March Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the American network CNN he favored building a nuclear reactor in Israel.