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Uranium Free South Africa: Uranium Resources South Africa

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:32:35 -0000

Mining companies under encouragement by the South African Government now want to mine Uranium on a vast scale all around South Africa. 120 years of Uranium pollution due to Gold Mining Activities has never been cleaned up ... what will make this any different?

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Radioactive waste in stream 'not a hazard' - Mail & Guardian

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:24:18 -0000

However, they have strongly recommended that the areas be cleaned up, the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry said on Wednesday.

The stream runs 90km from the western outskirts of Johannesburg before flowing into the Mooi River near Potchefstroom.

The department said it and the National Nuclear Regulator (NNR) brought in experts to look at contamination resulting from processing of uranium-bearing gold ore.

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Gazeta Mercantil - ENERGY: Brazil plans to build 60 nuclear power plants

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:38:26 -0000

The Brazilian Mines and Energy minister, Edison Lobão, said today in Angra dos Reis (state of Rio de Janeiro) that Brazil has already decided to give priority to the resumption of the country's nuclear program. Some 60 nuclear power plants should be built in the next 50 years. Each unit should have generation capacity for 1,000 megawatts.

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New South African enrichment process

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:26:15 -0000

A new isotope enrichment process with eventual application to uranium has been announced by a South African company. It represents a revival of an historic project, never thought to be commercially viable.

Hendrik Strydom of Klydon Pty Ltd outlined the genesis and uranium aspirations of his company's technology. The founding members of Klydon previously held senior positions within the SA Atomic Energy Corporation (now the Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa, Necsa).

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Recycling nuclear fuel is SA priority

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:02:06 -0000

South Africa was seeking commercial contracts with foreign companies to reprocess spent nuclear fuel, a senior government official said yesterday.

The country plans to expand its nuclear industry and diversify its energy mix as it battles a crippling power shortage that has hit key mining, smelting and manufacturing sectors, trimming growth in the economy.

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News - Finance/ Labour: Koeberg to reprocess spent fuel overseas

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:30:24 -0000

Government plans to send the highly-radioactive spent fuel rods stored at the Koeberg nuclear power station overseas for reprocessing, Parliament's minerals and energy portfolio committee heard on Wednesday.

This was a short-term solution to disposing of it, in terms of policy approved by Cabinet "but not announced yet", minerals and energy department nuclear safety director Schalk de Waal told MPs.

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IOL: Recycling of spent nuclear fuel on the cards

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:49:36 -0000

The government is in favour of recycling the hundreds of tons of highly-radioactive spent uranium fuel that has passed through the country's three nuclear reactors, members of parliament's minerals and energy portfolio committee heard on Wednesday.

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Mining industry, government at odds over High Court ruling on mine dump rights

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:14:16 -0000

South Africa's mining industry and the Department of Minerals and Energy (DME) are at odds over a December ruling in the Bloemfontein High Court that the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act (MPRDA), of 2002, does not apply to all of South Africa's old mine dumps.

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The Times - Nuclear plans will triple SA’s power prices

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:09:17 -0000

And Eskom GM says a mild winter will go a long way to minimise load shedding

The government’s plan to include nuclear and renewable sources in the energy mix could push electricity bills even higher than currently foreseen, a senior Eskom official said yesterday.

The Cabinet has formally committed the country to build conventional and Pebble Bed nuclear power stations.

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