Take a look at Germany, which is dismantling its reactors, to see the true cost of an atomic future.
Generations from now, there will still be no-go areas storing radioactive by-products of nuclear power production.
Low-level radioactive waste packages accumulated from the 1960s at the Nuclear Energy Corporation South Africa in the North West has been removed.
There are no major safety concerns about nuclear waste management in South Africa, the National Nuclear Regulator (NNR) said in Cape Town on Wednesday. NNR Nuclear Technology and waste programme manager Thiagan Pather was speaking at a public participation forum.
A bizarre diplomatic skirmish has broken out after Belarus retaliated against Lithuania’s decision to build a radioactive waste dump close to their shared border by announcing plans to put two giant pig farms in sniffing distance of its neighbour.
In the high-stakes nuclear game, will a radioactive waste-management policy be foisted on an unsuspecting public or will ”transparency, consultation and stakeholder participation” be a reality? A draft policy containing those words remains ungazetted while the government looks at prototype pebble-bed nuclear reactors for commercial use.
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/ 4 September 2003
Entities producing nuclear waste in South Africa will have to bear the financial burden for the management thereof, proposes a draft radioactive waste-management policy by the Department of Minerals and Energy.
An African, Caribbean and Pacific summit on trade and aid was on Friday set to venture into stormy political waters by strongly condemning nuclear waste shipments across the Pacific.
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/ 16 February 2001
While scientists say that there is no danger to the public from ships carrying nuclear waste, environmentalists are not convinced Fiona Macleod South Africa’s top nuclear scientists say the shipment of nuclear waste that passed by the Western Cape en route to Japan this week poses less of a threat to human health than smoking. […]
As a ship filled with nuclear waste heads for South African waters, environmental groups are concerned by the government’s lack of action, writes Inge Ruigrok DOES silence mean permission? A ship conveying 14 tons of the most concentrated nuclear waste ever transported, including a deadly cargo of bomb-grade plutonium, is likely to sail through South […]