Application for licence to ship uranium through SA’s ports outrages activists
Environmental groups have expressed concern about the shipping of uranium between the US and Namibia through South African ports. Last week, the Department of Energy gazetted an application made by US firm Edlow International for a transshipment and brief in-transit storage of low-activity uranium ore concentrate from Namibia to clients abroad. This will be done through the port of Durban or Cape Town using a duly authorised transport vessel‚ the department said in the gazette. "The transport vessel is not nuclear powered. Consignments are scheduled to enter and depart the port of Durban or Cape Town from time to time‚" the department said. However, Greenpeace Africa is opposed to the move. "Greenpeace is strongly opposed to the granting of a licence for the transshipment and in-transit storage of ‘low-activity uranium ore concentrate’ from Namibia. It is unclear how this concentrate would reach either Cape Town or Durban‚ and there is no information about the volume of ore that wou...
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