Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest

Posted: 27th November 2023

New laws that would clamp down on the freedoms of civil society movements seem to coincide with an uptick in nuclear power propaganda in South Africa. The South African government should put its nuclear plans to a public referendum, writes Gerard Boyce.

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Nuclear propaganda douses the flame of democracy

Those who advance pro-nuclear propaganda in South Africa - a phenomenon escalating in the mainstream press - also appear to hold the democratic process and meaningful public debate in contempt. Environmental activists have even been labeled “foreign agents”, as they are in Russia. All this is designed to fuel the nuclear industry’s relentless drive to get the government to expand nuclear energy. READ MORE

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