Extending the life of Koeberg, with its associated expense and waste-disposal problems, is not necessary — and nuclear energy is not clean or cost-effective
The nuclear plant will continue operating beyond next year, despite concerns over waste disposal
Take a look at Germany, which is dismantling its reactors, to see the true cost of an atomic future.
The dumping of radioactive waste can almost be excused because legislation was virtually nonexistent at the time. But the crime is still committed.
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.