/ 20 October 1999

PROTESTS CONTINUE AGAINST ‘SECOND KOEBERG’

FOLLOWING reports that another nuclear power station is being planned at Koeberg, outside Cape Town, a group of individuals and organisations have banded together to revitalise the Koeberg Alert campaign which was active during the 1980s. Electricity giant, Eskom, which is seeking approval from government for the construction of an experimental $100-million ‘pocket nuclear’ power station near its existing station, has come under fire from environmental groups. The decision to build a new station was taken after ESKOM examined three coastal sites to establish which was the most suitable for the construction of the controversial Pebble Bed Modular Reactor nuclear power plant, which will generate 110 megawatts. Eskom plans to manufacture other ‘pocket nukes’ for export.