Koeberg’s nuclear fuel supply is at risk thanks to an insensate blunder by the South African Department of Energy.
I have in front of me a frosty order from the UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION to Westinghouse Electric Company.
South Africa became its star member — its blue-eyed boy — in 1991, the only country to build and then renounce nuclear weapons. The order from the US nuclear regulator to end the licence to supply nuclear fuel to Koeberg used the word “nonproliferation” several times. Unfortunately, if you just keep on enriching, you will eventually get bomb material — and it is frighteningly easy to make a Hiroshima-type bomb from such material.
This, together with her peaceful transition to full democracy in 1994, aroused tremendous goodwill towards South Africa in the rest of the world. The ANC has steadily eroded that goodwill.Westinghouse in the US sends fuel components to its plant in Sweden, where it is fabricated into final fuel, and then shipped to Cape Town.
But the ANC cheered Mugabe, almost worshipped him, and helped him stay in power after he lost the 2008 election by a landslide. The ANC has also cheered brutal oppressors such as Fidel Castro and continually condemned Western countries like the US .
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