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Koeberg’s chief nuclear officer, Riedewaan Barkadien, has resigned to take up an executive position at a nuclear power station in Canada. Eskom said former Koeberg power station plant manager Keith Featherstone would act as chief nuclear officer from the start of August.
DER MERWE

Gordhan: Radioactive leaks at Koeberg were ‘negligible’

The amounts of radioactivity released in 2014 and 2015 were ‘negligible’ and it was not necessary to notify the public, Gordhan said.

  • Marelise Van Der Merwe
2 min read
The Vaalputs low-grade nuclear waste facility is about 100km southeast of Springbok in the Northern Cape.
KOEBERG NUCLEAR POWER STATION

What does SA plan to do with its toxic nuclear waste?

Take a look at Germany, which is dismantling its reactors, to see the true cost of an atomic future.

  • Sipho Kings
4 min read
A magnitude nine earthquake and tsunami in 2011 devastated the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant
FUKUSHIMA

New radioactive leaks at Japan’s Fukushima

An estimated 300 tonnes of radioactive water is believed to have leaked from a tank at Japan’s crippled nuclear plant, says the operator.

  • Kyoko Hasegawa
2 min read
FIONA MACLEOD

Lawyers tackle mega dump plan

Creation of a dump to process radioactive gold-mining waste near the Vaal River may set a pattern for the rehabilitation of hundreds of toxic dumps.

  • Fiona Macleod
3 min read
GAUTENG

Radioactive waste in stream ‘not a hazard’

Radioactive waste outside mining areas in the catchment of the Wonderfonteinspruit poses no risk to the public, according to experts.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read