Zimbabwe to Process Newly Found Uranium

[maddezmom]

HARARE, Zimbabwe - President Robert Mugabe has said Zimbabwe will process recently discovered uranium deposits in order to resolve its chronic electrical power shortage, state radio said Sunday.

Mugabe, who has close ties with two countries with controversial nuclear programs, Iran and North Korea, made the announcement 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.

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[stop the bleeding]

1. this is an interesting find? n/t

[ECH1969]

2. Like North Korea I have to wonder

where feeding his people ranks on Mugabe's priorities?

[Canuckistanian]

3. Mugabe's a nutcase

He proabably thinks he can just throw it into a furnace or something.

And good luck getting the equipment needed to process it.

[ECH1969]

4. Mugabe with a nuke would be scary.

[LostinVA]

6. I know... I think I trust North Korea more, actually...

And I never thought I'd write THAT sentence.

[ECH1969]

7. It is sad

[daleo]

5. How times have changed.

Only a few decades ago, the worry would have been about white supremacist Rhodesia supplying apartheid South Africa with uranium for atomic bombs.