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NOËL STOTT and AMELIA BROODRYK: No double game in SAs plan to enrich uranium

SA HAS recently been accused of "playing both sides of the nuclear coin". This followed President Jacob Zuma ’s speech at the Seoul Nuclear Security Summit last month, in which he said SA’s technical achievement in being able to generate medical isotopes through low enriched uranium (LEU) was "a welcome addition to the capability to produce such isotopes using highly enriched uranium (HEU)".

Zuma also said: "SA has adopted a policy on the beneficiation of our mineral resources, including uranium." Critics have suggested SA has a policy of enriching uranium and does not want to limit its options by giving up the production or use of HEU, and by implication will hold on to its existing stock of HEU, which it still has from the nuclear weapons programme of the apartheid government.