Israel - Israeli Sport

Israel unveiled plans Tuesday to work with its Arab neighbours to build a nuclear power plant in a project aimed at meeting the region's energy needs and promoting peace.

Israel has already chosen a site for the nuclear reactor -- the first to be put to civilian energy use -- in the northern part of the Negev desert, said Israeli Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau.

"Nuclear energy can be an area of regional cooperation with the objective of promoting peace," Landau told a Paris conference on the civilian use of nuclear power.