A team of Israeli experts has arrived in Washington for joint American-Israeli planning sessions to advance the “LBJ Plan” for nuclear desalination in Israel. The talks will open Wednesday at the U.S. Department of the Interior.
The Israeli delegation is headed by Gen. Zvi Tsur, of the Mekorot Water Authority, who was appointed by Prime Minister Levi Eshkol to serve as chief coordinator for the desalination project. Other members of the Israeli team are Dr. Abraham Katz, specialist on electricity; Aharon Weiner, head of the Water Planning Company, Tahal; and R. Tiberger, expert on reactors of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission. They will meet here with American experts of the Interior Department and atomic Energy Commission, who recently visited Israel for preliminary phases of the survey.
Together, the experts will new formulate a joint resume to the two governments on the practical aspects of the project, its scope, size, cost, and other details. The project will use nuclear power to desalt seawater while simultaneously generating low cost electrical power. While in the United States, the Israelis will view a desalination project at Wrightsville Beach, N.C., and the “Yankee Reactor” in New York State.
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