THE man who claims to be one of the "cofounders" of Greenpeace is at the centre of a storm surrounding allegations that he falsified his membership and was merely an early member of the organisation. Although the Greenpeace International web site...
Category: Nuclear Power
Nuclear-bidder linked to apartheid government
AREVA, the French nuclear conglomorate, formerly known as Framatome, maintained close ties with the apartheid government and was responsible for the construction of Koeberg, a plant that continues to pump out toxic emissions that exceed European safety guidelines. South African Safety limits, in...
SA Nuclear bidder fined for rigging markets in EU
In January 2007 Areva was fined €53 million by the European Commission for rigging EU electricity markets through a cartel involving 11 companies, among which ABB, Alstom, Fuji, Hitachi Japan, AE Power Systems, Mitsubishi Electric Corp, Schneider, Siemens, Toshiba and VA Tech. According to the Co...
NUCLEAR POWER — is it too late to get off the bus? An exit strategy for the radioactive bandwagon could involve natural gas!
SOUTH AFRICA's energy crisis is not going to be solved by putting PBMR's in every bus and mini-taxi. A nuclear toaster and radioactive oven, is not the solution to our nations's woes. Since there is no such thing as a safe dose, our government must undertake to reduce harmful emissions and conduc...
KOEBERG: No safe dose of radiation
THERE simply is no safe dose of radiation and the nuclear industry is lying to us, that's the gist of the argument made by various members of Koeberg Alert, including myself. As the Navajo Nation have said: The Nuclear Industry is bad medicine. No doubt, locals will learn that radiation is bad mu...
NUKES: Environmentalists call foul over Namibian Uranium Mine
CONCERNS continue to mount over the opening of the Langer Heinrich Uranium Mine in the Namib-Naukluft Park despite Government insisting that 'all is well'. [EXRACTED FROM THE NAMIBIAN] The World Information Service on Energy (Wise), one of the world's largest networks of groups working on nuclear...