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Norwegian official who conducted Norway's only inspection of heavy water sold to Israel, accepting Bergmann's claims uncritically. | 1915-05-15 | 2006-10-30 | Aker, Norway |
Jens C. Hauge was a Norwegian official who spent two weeks in April 1961 conducting Norway's first - and only - inspection of the heavy water that had been sold to Israel. His inspection, closely monitored by Ernst David Bergmann, found the water safely stored near the Nahal Soreq research reactor, as Dimona was not yet in operation. Hauge's report to the Norwegian foreign ministry was astonishing in its uncritical acceptance of all of Bergmann's assertions, including that the heavy water would be used to power a twenty-four-megawatt "research reactor" that would be a model for a planned much larger power reactor.1
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Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 8. ↩︎