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The Koeberg nuclear power station is the only nuclear power station in South Africa and contains two uranium pressurized water reactors based on a design by Framatome of France. The station is located 30 km north of Cape Town. The plant is owned and operated by the country's national electricity supplier, Eskom.
South Africa gained sufficient experience with nuclear technology to capitalise on the promotion of the U.S. government's Peaceful Nuclear Explosions (PNE) program. [1] Finally in 1971, South African minister of mines Carel de Wet gave approval of the country's own PNE programme with the publicly stated objective of using PNEs in the mining ...
Koeberg Nuclear Power Station South Africa is the only country in Africa with a commercial nuclear power plant. Two reactors located at the Koeberg nuclear power station account for around 5% of South Africa's electricity production. Spent fuel is disposed of at Vaalputs Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility in the Northern Cape. The SAFARI-1 tank in pool research reactor is located at the ...
In 1957, South Africa and the United States signed an agreement to procure a research reactor. In 1970, the Uranium Enrichment Corporation (UCOR) was established. On 1 July 1982, the Nuclear Energy Act (Act 92 of 1982) created the Atomic Energy Corporation (AEC), superseding the former AEB. [3] It became responsible for all nuclear related ...
Alleged spare bomb casings from South Africa's nuclear weapon programme. Their purpose is disputed. [131] South Africa produced six nuclear weapons in the 1980s, but dismantled them in the early 1990s. In 1979, there was a detection of a putative covert nuclear test in the Indian Ocean, called the Vela incident. It has long been speculated that ...
The African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty, also known as the Treaty of Pelindaba (named after South Africa's main nuclear research facility, run by the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (NECSA) and was the location where South Africa's atomic bombs of the 1970s were developed, constructed and subsequently stored), [1] establishes a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Africa.
In 1996, the Associated Press described Pelindaba as the place "once at the heart of South Africa's (nuclear) weapons program". [22] The South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (NECSA) was established as a public company by the new government of South Africa in 1999. A 4 MV Van de Graaff particle accelerator operates at Pelindaba for various ...
Pages in category "Nuclear weapons programs" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. ... South Africa and weapons of mass destruction;