URANIUM PLANTS
South African development (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) LONDON, Nov. 5. South Africa’s development of its own uranium enrichment process could prove as important to the Republic as the discovery of diamonds there, the South African Ambassador (Mr Carel de Wet) said. Because of the costs involved, South Africa was one of only four countries in the non-Communist world possessing its own uranium enrichment plants, the newlyarrived envoy told a dinner in his honour. The process, a unique one discovered and developed in South Africa, was part of a general policy to make the best use of raw materials and was “solely for peaceful uses,” he said. Considering its eventual contribution to the economy. Dr de Wet predicted that “its discovery could be compared in importance with the discovery of diamonds in South Africa,”
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33066, 6 November 1972, Page 22
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