25 November 2020: The Koeberg nuclear power station viewed from the beach at Melkbosstrand in the Western Cape. (Photograph by Dwayne Senior/ Bloomberg via Getty Images)
It is common knowledge that former president Jacob Zuma fired then minister of finance Nhlanhla Nene in December 2015 because he would not support Zuma’s 9.6GW nuclear deal. But what is less well known are the falsehoods told by the deal’s supporters to coerce reluctant Cabinet ministers – and the country at large – into believing that nuclear power was in South Africa’s best interests.
Witnesses before the Zondo commission investigating state capture revealed the lies told about nuclear power relating to its alleged safety, its alleged cost and the alleged handling of nuclear waste. Evidence before Judge Raymond Zondo shows that parts of the ANC executive were hell-bent on pursuing the deal, with scant regard for South Africa’s fiscal health, or the health and interests of its residents.
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TII’s Directed Energy Research Centre partners with world-leading universities
ABU DHABI, 21 days ago Technology Innovation Institute’s (TII) Directed Energy Research Centre (DERC) has partnered with Germany’s Ruhr University Bochum and Helmut Schmidt University, France’s University Clermont Auvergne and National University of Colombia, Bogota. The collaborations follow a series of rapid announcements at Technology Innovation Institute since the first Advanced Technology Research Council board meeting in August 2020. Directed Energy Research Centre is one of the initial seven dedicated research centres at Technology Innovation Institute. The strategic partnerships will advance breakthroughs across the field of directed energy and its sub-disciplines.
Technology Innovation Institute (TII), the applied research pillar of the Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), has unveiled its Electromagnetic
TII unveils electromagnetic compatibility labs in Abu Dhabi
ABU DHABI, 5 hours, 41 minutes ago Technology Innovation Institute (TII), the applied research pillar of the Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), has unveiled its Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) laboratories in Abu Dhabi, in a first of its kind facility in the region. Unveiled by TII’s Directed Energy Research Centre (DERC), the facility is composed of three laboratories - an EMC semi-anechoic chamber, a pulsed power laboratory, and a low-noise emanation laboratory. The DERC facility enables key technologies to be evaluated against electromagnetic compatibility and interference by reproducing man-made and natural electromagnetic hazards in the pulsed power and semi-anechoic chambers. The direct connection between the two chambers enables a diversity of experiments involving 100’s of kV nanosecond pulses and multi-megawatt microwaves systems.