The British Government is ready “in principle” to help finance the construction in Israel of a nuclear reactor as part of a project for desalination of seawater, according to a statement made today by C.R.E. Brooke, commercial attache at the British Embassy here. He said that conversations looking toward such help have been underway in London at a semi-official level, and “consideration” is being given the proposal for British aid for this project.
It was learned here today that Israel’s Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir, now the Acting Premier, discussed the subject recently in London with Marcus Sieff, chairman of the British National Export Council’s Committee for Israel, and with Edmund de Rothschild. The latter said that the British could match the terms for the project offered by the Americans, according to Mr. Brooke.
(In London, today, the Daily Telegraph reported that Israel is contemplating the purchase from Britain of a nuclear desalination plant valued at 71,000,000 pounds sterling ($198,800,000). According to the newspaper, the Weit Westgarth Company, of Glasgow, is marketing an advanced, gas-cooled nuclear reactor for use in desalination of seawater.)
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