Koeberg has accumulated more than 1,000 tons of radioactive waste in Cape Town
The Fukushima nuclear reactor after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Picture: REUTERS
It is bizarre that a government department is advocating the building of more nuclear power stations with the slogan “a no-regret option”! .What Eskom has failed to do for the full 40 years the ageing Koeberg power station has run, is to build a permanent repository for high-level radioactive waste. One consequence of this failure is that Koeberg has now accumulated more than 1,000 tonnes of high-level radioactive waste within the municipal boundaries of SA’s second-largest city, Cape Town.JOIN THE DISCUSSION: Send us an e-mail with your comments. Letters of more than 300 words will be edited for length. Send your letter by e-mail to
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