Israel will shortly begin the production of uranium from phosphate ores which abound in the Negev, it was learned here today in informed circles.
Equipment has already been assembled in Israel for the work and scientists and engineers have worked out the processes most suitable for extraction of the vital element from ores. The radio-active material will be produced as a by-product of the manufacture of phosphate fertilizers in Haifa’s chemical plants.
It was also learned today that Britain recently joined Israel and France in an agreement on heavy water research. New methods of producing heavy water by high voltage electrolysis are being developed. Israeli scientists made one of the early major contributions to the progress of peaceful uses of atomic energy by the development of a method of producing heavy water cheaply.
The Hebrew University received a cyclotron as a gift from the California Technical Institute a few days ago and is now installing it in the University’s nuclear research laboratory. Research with the machine will be under the guidance of Dr. S. Cohen, an American physicist, and topnotch Israeli physicists.
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