Stewart Stogel
Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006

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Israel's Channel 2 Television is reporting that a leak of irradiated water has come from a nuclear "research" reactor in the Negev Desert city of Dimona.

Channel 2 reports that "high levels of radiation" were detected in water at a crater just outside the nuclear complex.

Israeli authorities have acknowledged the "incident," but claim that the water involved is located in a remote area of the Dimona facility not accessible to the public.

Channel 2 is reporting that the crater containing the radioactive water has not been secured by Israeli authorities and is accessible by the public.

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Dimona is the site where it is believed that Israel has built more than 200 nuclear warheads over the last 20 years.

It is also the site where, in 1991, Saddam Hussein lobbed several Scud missiles in an unsuccessful attempt to draw Israel into the 1991 Gulf War.

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