Tel Aviv, Aug 04, SPA -- Israel is reviving plans for a nuclear power plant in the southern Negev Desert, Israel Army Radio quoted the infrastructure minister as saying. The minister, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, said he has thesupport of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, and that the primeminister's office and the Infrastructure Ministry haveformed a joint team. David Baker, an official in Olmert's office, declinedcomment. Ben-Eliezer spoke Friday to a gathering of engineers inthe town of Herzliya, according to Israel Army Radio, which carried his remarks on its Web site. «The government of Israel is to make a historic decision concerning the building of a nuclear power plant ... in the Negev,» Ben-Eliezer was quoted as saying. He said the project would be presented to the government for approval in coming months. If approved, the power plant would take about eight years to complete, the radio said.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/472638