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EGYPT INSTALLS RADIATION MONITORING NEAR ISRAEL


CAIRO [MENL] -- Egypt has installed 17 stations near the border with Israel in an effort to monitor radiation from the Dimona reactor, said to be the production facility for Israel's nuclear weapons.

Egyptian officials said the stations were placed along the eastern Sinai Peninsula as part of a network to monitor radiation from Dimona. They said the facilities were installed as part of Egypt's effort to ensure that radiation from Dimona would not contaminate the air and water of the Sinai.

Ali Islam, director of the Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority, said the nearest radiation-monitoring station in the Sinai Peninsula was 73 kilometers from the nuclear reactor in Dimona. Islam said Egypt has also operated mobile units, for installation on either aircraft or vehicles, that could detect radiation directly along the Egyptian-Israeli border.

So far, officials said, Egyptian authorities have not obtained evidence of unusually high radiation levels from Israel. They said the monitoring network could detect any change in radiation levels within an hour.

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