Israeli scientist: Dimona poses threat to environment

An Israeli nuclear scientist warned that Israel's Dimona nuclear plant is aging and poses a real threat to the environment.Professor Uzi Even, a former member of the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission, said the power plant should be shut down, press tv reported.Last year some 70 workers suffering from cancer filed lawsuits against the Israel's Atomic Energy Commission over the lack of proper safety measures.The victims said the high level of radioactive radiation that they were exposed to at Dimona was the main cause of the cancer that they are suffering from.They also said officials had assured them that they were protected properly and that the level of harmful radiation was being monitored carefully, but now the opposite has been proven.Dramatic increases in cancer cases, sterility and abnormal births South of the West Bank is said to be linked to a uranium leak at the Dimona nuclear power plant.The nuclear reactor has become very old after 48 years, with experts warning of that the leakage could reach Jordan, Syria, Egypt and even Libya.