Israel's Principal Nuclear Reactor

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Israel's atomic angst | A Textile Factory with a Difference; One of the world’s oldest nuclear plants helped build the Jewish state's secret nuclear arsenal. Economist, May 21, 2016.
http://www.economist.com/news/mi ... ewish-states-secret

Note:
(a) "across kilometres of an exclusion zone in the Negev Desert, the nuclear reactor near the Israeli town of Dimona * * * Its bland official name, the Centre for Nuclear Research, belies a martial purpose. * * * it is the source of fissile material used to make Israel's nuclear weapons."
(i)
(A) Negev
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negev
(section 1 Etymology)
(B) pronunciation:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Negev
(ii) Negev Nuclear Research Center
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negev_Nuclear_Research_Center
(unofficially sometimes referred to as the Dimona reactor; about thirteen kilometers south-east of the city of Dimona)
(iii) It appears that Israel has two nuclear reactors. See (d).

(b) "The reactor, which was supplied by France, was switched on 15 years [in 1963] after the establishment of the state of Israel [1948]. * * * the main components were first activated in 1963.
(c) "Israel has never used its reactors for generating electricity. Along with the United States, France, Russia and China, it is one of the few countries believed to have acquired the nuclear 'triad.' * * * The third leg of the triad is thought to have been added in 1999, when Israel received the first of six planned submarines. These were built and largely paid for by Germany. If, as reported, they can launch nuclear-tipped cruise missiles" from [diesel-powered] submarines

Pentagon's annual reports to Congress, as late as 2014, described as 'questionable' both Xia-class submarines and JL-1 SLBM (subrine-launched ballistic missile).
(d) "(A smaller and older reactor, supplied by America in 1960 for research purposes, is scheduled to be deactivated in 2018 and replaced by a particle accelerator.)"