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Title: | Valindaba: lessons from South Africa's nuclear policy |
Author: | Lomas, Peter |
Year: | 1987 |
Periodical: | The World Today: Chatham House Review |
Volume: | 43 |
Issue: | 6 |
Pages: | 95-97 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | nuclear energy nuclear weapons |
Abstract: | Unlike the two French-supplied reactors commissioned at Koeberg, Cape Province, in 1984, the uranium-enrichment plant at Valindaba, near Pretoria, which began full operation in the mid-1970s, is not open to international inspection, nor is it dependent on foreign supplies of nuclear material and equipment. The total picture of South African nuclear policy; suggests that it has been designed with one or more of three purposes in mind: 1) the acquisition of nuclear weapons; 2) preparation for an effective international embargo on fuel supplies to the country; 3) providing a diplomatic cudgel with which to beat external opponents of the regime. Notes, ref. |