Four radioactive incidents, one question: What do Koeberg’s maintenance failures reveal?

Daily Maverick
20 Jul 2026

In this Daily Maverick article, Isabel Bosman-Burnett, a researcher with SAIIA’s African Governance and Diplomacy Programme, discusses recent contamination incidents at Koeberg, arguing that their detection demonstrates that the plant’s safety systems worked as intended.

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