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The Koeberg Alert alliance is an anti-nuclear activist organisation which emerged from an earlier pressure group in Cape Town called "Stop Koeberg" in 1983. Both were intended to halt construction of the first nuclear power station in South Africa at Duynefontein, 28 km NNW of Cape Town: theKoeberg Nuclear Power Station.
After failing to influence the then rulingNational Party it turned to the broader democratic and anti-apartheid movement, hoping to influence future policy.
Koeberg formed an alliance withEarthlife Africa and the emerging Environmental Justice National Forum in the 1990s, it was revitalised in 2009 in opposition to PresidentThabo Mbeki'sPebble bed modular reactor programme and the emergence of"Nuclear-1" (a project to build additional nuclear reactors in South Africa) under President Jacob Zuma.
It currently organises variousanti-nuclear campaigns, participates in the wideranti-nuclear andpeace movements,[1] and makes submissions and presentations to formal government processes relating to nuclear power.
Representatives have attended international nuclear power related conferences and events, including in Yokohama, Fukushima and Sweden.
In June 2021, Koeberg Alert's Peter Becker was appointed to the board of theNational Nuclear Regulator. He was fired by the Minister of Minerals and Energy,Gwede Mantashe, in February 2022, citing Becker's opposition to nuclear power.[2]
Some notable people active in the organisation:
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