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The Soreq Nuclear Research Center is located near Yavne, west of Rehovot, and shares a security zone here with the IAF Palmachim Air Base. The functional equivalent of the US Livermore or Los Alamos national weapons laboratories, it is responsible for nuclear weapons research, design and fabrication. It is affiliated to the Israel Atomic Energy Commission.

The center conducts research in various physical sciences, particularly the development of many kinds of sensors, lasers, atmospheric research, non-destructive testing techniques, nuclear safety, space environment, medical diagnostics, and nuclear medicine and radiopharmacuticals among others.

Some of the institute's research facilities include a 5MW pool-type light water nuclear reactor supplied in the late 1950s from the USA under the Atoms for Peace program and a 10 MeV proton cyclotron accelerator, sophisticated laboratories for applied research and development, as well as fully-equipped mechanical and electronic workshops.

A 40 MeV, 2 mA proton and deuteron superconducting linear accelerator was scheduled for commissioning in 2009.The Center is named after the nearby stream of Soreq.

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