The mailing describes the South African government's rapidly advancing nuclear program. Decades of support from the West in the form of technology, equipment, training, and enriched uranium exports and financing have helped South Africa gain advanced nuclear weapons capacity. The mailing says South Africa, with its illegal occupation of Namibia, is estimated to have the world's third largest supply of raw uranium. U.S. reactors that are fueled by "apartheid uranium" are: Alabama Power Co., Baltimore Gas and Electric, Carolina Power and Light, Consumer Power, Duke Power Co., Duquesne Light, Georgia Power Co., Gulf States Utility Co., Louisiana Power and Light, Mississippi Power and Light Co.,...
The mailing describes the South African government's rapidly advancing nuclear program. Decades of support from the West in the form of technology, equipment, training, and enriched uranium exports and financing have helped South Africa gain advanced nuclear weapons capacity. The mailing says South Africa, with its illegal occupation of Namibia, is estimated to have the world's third largest supply of raw uranium. U.S. reactors that are fueled by "apartheid uranium" are: Alabama Power Co., Baltimore Gas and Electric, Carolina Power and Light, Consumer Power, Duke Power Co., Duquesne Light, Georgia Power Co., Gulf States Utility Co., Louisiana Power and Light, Mississippi Power and Light Co., Northern States Power, South Carolina Electric and Gas, Tennessee Valley Authority, Virginia Electric Power Co., and Yankee Atomic. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) refuses to distinguish between uranium coming from Namibia and that coming from South Africa, thus, in a sense, legitimizing South Africa's illegal occupation of Namibia. It also fails to acknowledge that U.S. imports of Namibian uranium violate U.N. Decree Number One (1974) which prohibits the exploitation of Namibia's resources. People are urged to join the national campaign to stop U. S. -South African nuclear collaboration, form a broad coalition to end imports into or through their community, plan educational events and protest actions targeting local companies and institutions that have engaged in nuclear collaboration with South Africa, press their state regulatory commission to bar use of "apartheid uranium" in their state's nuclear power plants, and support federal legislation to end imports of South African/Namibian uranium.
