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The true cost of nuclear power in South Africa (2011)
| Auteur | Greenpeace |
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| Datum | augustus 2011 |
| Classificatie | 5.62.0.00/17 (ZUID-AFRIKA - ALGEMEEN) |
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Uit de publicatie:
The True Cost of Nuclear Power in South Africa Greenpeace Report 2011 1 Introduction Six days after the nuclear catastrophe at Fukushima in Japan in March 2011, South Africa’s Minister of Energy Dipuo Peters declared her country’s intention to add 9,600 MW of nuclear electricity - or six new nuclear reactors. South Africa already has 1,844 MW of nuclear generated electricity - while countries such as Germany, Switzerland and Italy have completely rejected nuclear energy in response to the Fukushima disaster. But, speaking at the second regional conference on energy and nuclear power in Africa in Cape Town on May 30 this year, Ms Peters went even further, trumpeting the development of a nuclear-export market to the rest of Africa, supported by both the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the African Union. South Africa spent 13 years pursuing the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor, wasting billions of rands in the process (R9-billion was spent on research and development and another R22-billion would have been needed to complete a demonstration model) as investors across the world shied away from having anything to do with it. Eventually the state cancelled the project and wrote off the monies it had spent. The government and its wholly owned power utility Eskom remain hell bent on securing what it believes will be a cheap and sustainable nuclear solution for its energy supply crisis.
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