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South Africa still owns highly enriched uranium, report says

Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources Gwede Mantashe

Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources Gwede Mantashe

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2nd August 2024

By: Bloomberg

  

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South Africa still has a stockpile of highly enriched uranium, Netwerk24 reported, citing Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources Gwede Mantashe.

The nation declared its holdings of the nuclear material, which can be used to build weapons, to the International Atomic Energy Agency as part of a comprehensive precautionary agreement, the website reported, citing Mantashe. The level of enrichment of the uranium was classified information, it said.

The country’s possession of this uranium is largely a surplus from the nation’s apartheid-era nuclear-weapons program, Netwerk24 said, citing nuclear affairs expert Noël Stott.

South Africa is a signatory to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

Edited by Bloomberg

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