Posted on 11/21/2005 7:16:31 AM PST by dead
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has said Zimbabwe will turn to nuclear power by processing recently discovered uranium deposits to resolve its chronic electricity shortage, state radio reported Sunday.
Mugabe, who has close ties with two countries with controversial nuclear programs - Iran and North Korea, spoke of his intention Saturday, the radio station reported.
It was not clear how Mugabe intended to use any uranium deposits since the country does not have a nuclear power plant. The president announced plans in the 1990s to acquire a reactor from Argentina, but nothing else was ever heard about the proposal.
"Zimbabwe will develop power by processing uranium, which has recently been found in the country," Mugabe said, according to the radio. "The discovery of uranium will go a long way in further enhancing the government rural electrification program."
Zimbabwe was not previously known to have any workable deposits of uranium.
South Africa has the region's only nuclear power station at Koeberg.
Zimbabwe has been plagued by a chronic shortage of foreign exchange since Mugabe's seizure of 5,000 white-owned farms and the collapse of an export-oriented agricultural industry. It currently falls short of generating the 2,100 megawatts it needs daily by 400 to 450 megawatts.
Zimbabwe has had great difficulty meeting bills from Mozambique, South Africa and Congo for imports from the regional electric power grid.
Hey Bro! Don't ya think you might try to figure out that farming business before you try to build a nuclear bomb?
HAHHAHAHAHHA...no lie...if this joker traded in some RPG's for a couple of, simple, diesel electric generators, he'd double that nation's electrical output.
He's not going to try to build anything except more palaces with the money he gets from his uranium customers - Al Qaeda, Iran, North Korea, etc.
Wow. You beat me to that remark.
Dittos!
who's going to work there......not me..saftey standards.....NOT
He played the white farmer-against-black farmer schtick too long, now he needs to play the nuclear-reactor schtick before the international news outlets start reporting the real reason why his country is starving.
Mugabe may go down in history as the greatest pooch screwer of all time.
Quite frankly, something as complex as nuclear power in the hands of idiotic communists is a disaster waiting to happen. There are much harsher things I want to say but I will remain civil.
Lord only knows what he thinks "processing" means in the context of uranium. For all we know, he may think you burn it!
Upper Volta with rockets. Literally.
Has anyone told him there is it more to than just crushing to size, then shoveling it into a vintage locomotive boiler's firebox?
It's all part of the Axis of Weasels' "multipolar" plan to counter U.S. power.
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