S Africa taps uranium for medicine
Officials say process may ease global concerns over nuclear arms proliferation.
Published On 20 Dec 2010
Scientists in South Africa are producing medical isotopes using technology from the country’s apartheid era nuclear weapons programme.
But instead of highly-encriched uranium, they are utilising low-enriched uranium.
It is hoped that this process could help to ease global concerns over nuclear arms proliferation.
Tania Page reports from Pretoria.
Source: Al Jazeera