Reaching out from the Global South
BOTH UKRAINE and South Africa share a history of nuclear disarmament. In fact we are the only two nations on Earth to willingly give up atomic weapons. Accusations that Pretoria is assisting Iran with nuclear capabilities are thus demonstrably fal...
KOEBERG like many Pressurised Water Reactor (PWR) nuclear plants, produces emissions of radioactive isotopes. The resulting 'effluent' is routinely released into the environment where it makes its way into the food chain. Annual allowable emissions known as the 'Annual Authorised Discharge Quanti...
THE WORLD has its fair share of prospective 'revolutionary ideas', objectives that have failed to pan out. Not for lack of trying, nor because a notion isn't any good on paper but rather the expression of a thought may not be based upon sound physics, or could be missing a vital technological bre...
SOUTH AFRICAN apartheid energy throwback, Eskom has announced its latest scheme to “find other uses for the PBMR”. Hawking white elephants around the globe in a time of economic crisis might seem like a bad joke if it weren't for the seriousness of nuclear proliferation in an age of cross-border...
THE level of hypocrisy shown by South African authorities has reached a new high with permission granted by the National Nuclear Regulator for the entry of USS Roosevelt – a nuclear powered and nuclear-armed aircraft carrier — to enter Table Bay. Is it any wonder that the public no longer take of...
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...