By JON GAMBRELL, Associated Press

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Construction work has intensified on a major new structure at a facility key to Israel’s long-suspected atomic weapons program , according to satellite images analyzed by experts. They say it could be a new reactor or a facility to assemble nuclear arms — but secrecy shrouding the program makes it difficult to know for sure.

The work at the Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center near the city of Dimona will renew questions about Israel’s widely believed status as the Mideast’s only nuclear-armed state.

FILE – This file image, made from footage aired on Jan. 7, 2005, by Israeli television station Channel 10, shows what the channel claims is Israel’s nuclear facility near Dimona, the first detailed video of the s

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