SOUTH AFRICA: VERIFYING NUCLEAR COMPLIANCE

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• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: April 23, 2020
• Case Number: F-2018-00226
• Publication Date: July 11, 1991

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South Africa: Reactions to Lifting of US Sanctions
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SOUTH AFRICA: Verifying Nuclear Compliance
South Africa signed the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty em
Monday
Comment: Pretoria now has 18 months to bring the NPT protocols
into force, which require that all of its nuclear material be open to
international inspection. South Africa operated a pilot uranium
enrichment plant for the production of highly enriched, weapons
grade uranium (HEU) from the late 1970s until the plant was shut
down in February I 990.
Pretoria probably has not made a final decision
as to whether to declare all or a part of its HEU. It probably will be
disinclined to declare any HEU that has been converted into nuclear
weapon components and could decide to maintain a stockpile of such
components in South Africa
Despite the rretona s announcement nas
;sum the IA EA and from NPT signatories, the accession
could eventually undercut the credibility of the treaty if it is
discovered that South Africa retained a nuclear weapon capability.
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