Koeberg Alert

The Koeberg Alert alliance is an anti-nuclear activist organisation which emerged from an earlier pressure group in Cape Town called "Stop Koeberg" in 1983. Both were intended to halt construction of the first nuclear power station in South Africa at Duynefontein, 28 km NNW of Cape Town: the Koeberg Nuclear Power Station.

After failing to influence the then ruling National Party it turned to the broader democratic and anti-apartheid movement, hoping to influence future policy.

Koeberg formed an alliance with Earthlife Africa and the emerging Environmental Justice National Forum in the 1990s, it was revitalised in 2009 in opposition to President Thabo Mbeki's Pebble bed modular reactor programme and the emergence of "Nuclear-1" (a project to build additional nuclear reactors in South Africa) under President Jacob Zuma.

It currently organises various anti-nuclear campaigns, participates in the wider anti-nuclear and peace movements,^[1] and makes submissions and presentations to formal government processes relating to nuclear power.

Representatives have attended international nuclear power related conferences and events, including in Yokohama, Fukushima and Sweden.

In June 2021, Koeberg Alert's Peter Becker was appointed to the board of the National Nuclear Regulator. He was fired by the Minister of Minerals and Energy, Gwede Mantashe, in February 2022, citing Becker's opposition to nuclear power.^[2]

Notable people

Some notable people active in the organisation:

Mike Kantey – former secretary^[3]
Keith Gottschalk – long-standing member^[4]
Peter Becker – revived organisation in 2009^[5]
David Fig^[4]

References

^ David Fig (2005). Uranium Road: Questioning South Africa's Nuclear Direction. Jacana Media. p. 52. ISBN 9781770090927.
^ Planting, Sasha (18 May 2022). "KOEBERG ROW: Peter Becker, sacked from the National Nuclear Regulator Board, won't go down without a fight". Daily Maverick. South Africa. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
^ "South Africa: Koeberg Alert". All Africa. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
^ ^a ^b "Ministerial Agreement Threatens Tariff Increases And Nuclear Safety at Koeberg - Africa.com". africa.com. 13 May 2021. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
^ says, Praveen (18 May 2011). "About KAA". KOEBERG ALERT ALLIANCE. Retrieved 27 February 2021.

External links

[ur-1] David Fig (2005). Uranium Road: Questioning South Africa's Nuclear Direction. Jacana Media. p. 52. ISBN 9781770090927.

[2] Planting, Sasha (18 May 2022). "KOEBERG ROW: Peter Becker, sacked from the National Nuclear Regulator Board, won't go down without a fight". Daily Maverick. South Africa. Retrieved 12 August 2022.

[aa-3] "South Africa: Koeberg Alert". All Africa. Retrieved 29 February 2016.

[tariff_increases_\-4] "Ministerial Agreement Threatens Tariff Increases And Nuclear Safety at Koeberg - Africa.com". africa.com. 13 May 2021. Retrieved 12 August 2022.

[5] says, Praveen (18 May 2011). "About KAA". KOEBERG ALERT ALLIANCE. Retrieved 27 February 2021.

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