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(CBS) The assault on Pelindaba would make quite a movie. But it’s a thriller that is all too real, with consequences that might have threatened the world. It was a daring break-in at a heavily guarded nuclear plant that holds enough weapons grade uranium to build a dozen atomic bombs. The story is little known, but after months of reporting, 60 Minutes can tell the tale, for the first time, through the eyes of the one man who stopped the plot. What happened at Pelindaba is the kind of thing that keeps presidents awake at night.Pelindaba is nestled in the…

Eskom has shut down one of its units at the Koeberg Power Station in the Western Cape, the company said on Saturday.Spokesperson Fani Zulu said Koeberg’s unit two was closed down on Friday because of a technical fault.”It will take two weeks to effect the necessary repairs.”Zulu said residents would not be affected by power cuts during the repair period.Source: http://www.thestar.co.za/

The farm Duynefontein, on which Koeberg Nuclear Power station is built, was not rezoned when the power station was built and retains its rural zoning.Now Eskom has applied to the City of Cape Town to rezone the land to “regularise” the land use for the power station and other facilities on the property.The application is for the rezoning of the land on which the nuclear power plant is built from rural to noxious industrial, of the offices and visitors’ centre to commercial, and of other areas to general industrial.Martin Hutton-Squire, of MLH Architects and Planners, the consultants who have been…

From the global Nuclear Threat Initiative. Please note the international concern of the “military-styled” attack on Pelindaba’s ops room last November, yet few answers have been forthcoming in SA. Furthermore, no two figures on how much HEU there is at Pelindaba seem to correlate. It poses a deadly threat to this country.November 19, 2008

We are pleased to alert you to this week’s public release of Securing the Bomb 2008.

The report, commissioned annually by NTI, finds that the world still faces a “very real” risk that terrorists could get a nuclear bomb. The Obama Administration must make reducing that…