Mantashe was right to have fired Becker, says Kemm

[Nicodeamus]

THERE have been various reports in the media that Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy Gwede Mantashe has fired a board member of the National Nuclear Regulator for being unsuitable to serve on the board.

The person concerned is Peter Becker of the anti-nuclear activist group Koeberg Alert Alliance, an anti-nuclear body that is opposed to nuclear power.

Now, returning to nuclear power and nuclear technology generally, the NNR has exactly the same function with respect to the spectrum of nuclear technology.

That function is to safeguard the public from any unsafe or faulty nuclear process or practice. It exists to promote the safe application of nuclear technology. This includes nuclear power such as that produced by Koeberg nuclear power station, but it also includes nuclear medicine, as practised in a number of South African hospitals. Furthermore, it includes agricultural nuclear usage, as well as nuclear processes in industry, such as nuclear radiography of pipes to detect very small cracks which, if not identified, could lead to a major accident.

Certainly the NNR cannot be an anti-nuclear body, and obviously there is no place in it for an anti-nuclear activist who advocates closing down all nuclear technology.

Mantashe was right to have fired Becker, says Kemm

There is no place in the National Nuclear Regulator for an anti-nuclear activist who advocates closing down all nuclear technology.

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[ToxicBunny]

I think Becker should have been booted from the board of the NNR because he's a fscking retard.

BUT the board does need civilian non-politically alligned representation and potentially a person who is not a Nuclear cheerleader just to keep things in check and rational.

 

[Iwojima]

Talk about being right for the wrong reasons...