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Ex-Mossad chief to explore uranium

Gulliver Energy, headed by Meir Dagan, expects to receive permission from Energy and Water Ministry to search Negev region for uranium

The Ministry of Energy and Water (formerly Israel's Ministry of National Infrastructures) is to grant Gulliver Energy, headed by former Mossad Director Meir Dagan, the permission to explore for uranium in Israel's Negev region.

 

This is the first time an Israeli company obtains a government permit to prospect uranium in the country.

 

The ministry's natural resource and mine supervision administration informed the company on Wednesday that the ministry would grant the uranium prospecting license once it pays the government fee.

 

On Thursday the company announced that it had paid the fee and expects to receive the permit within the next few days. Gulliver plans to hire foreign experts and to import special equipment for the explorations.

 

The Maya field in the Negev, which was licensed to the Zerah partnership, exhibited signs of a highly radioactive metal at a shallow depth. Gulliver plans to expand the drilling pit and test soil to indentify the type and quantity of the radioactive metal.

 

Gulliver signed an agreement with the Zerah partnership in which the latter gave Gulliver the permission to make use of all the information it had collected for its prospecting, mining and production of radioactive metals including uranium.

 

In return, Zerah will receive 12.5% of the proceeds from the radioactive metals mined and used by Gulliver.

 

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פרסום ראשון: 12.23.11, 07:19
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