Washington - Obama Administration Denies Visas to Israeli Nuclear
Scientists Published on: April 8th, 2010 at 07:15 PM News Source:
Pajamas Media translation

Washington - The Obama administration is now denying U.S. visas to
Israeli scientists who work at that nation’s Dimona nuclear reactor.

According to a report in Israeli newspaper Maariv : “…. workers
at the Dimona reactor who submitted visa requests to visit the United
States for ongoing university education in Physics, Chemistry and Nuclear
Engineering — have all been rejected, specifically because of their
association with the Dimona reactor.

This is a new policy decision of the Obama administration, since there
never used to be an issue with the reactor’s workers from study in
the USA, and till recently, they received visas and studied in the USA.”

Israeli defense officials are stating these workers have no criminal
records in the U.S. or Israel and have been singled out purely because
of their place of employment. Moreover, nuclear materials for the Dimona
reactor apparently do not come from the U.S. Zeev Alfasi — head of
nuclear engineering at Israel’s Ben Gurion University — states that
“the United States doesn’t sell anything nuclear-related to the
Dimona reactor, and that means absolutely nothing. Radiation detectors,
for example, have to be purchased now in France because the USA refuses
to sell these to Israel.”