Kenya has engaged the International Atomic Energy Agency and signed multilateral letters of intent in pursuit of nuclear power.
Competition from low-cost green energy is putting the screw on nuclear vendors and state utilities
It still has staunch believers but sceptics question the project’s feasibility, writes Lynley Donnelly.
South Africa will make a $49 billion profit on a $50 billion nuclear power station fleet, if a utopian report is to be believed.
Readers write in about Zuma, and Eskom’s nuclear plans.
Naysayers refuse to see how the nuclear power industry has evolved and become economically viable.
The public protector has a year left in office and hopes to resume quiet meetings with Cabinet. But Madonsela’s going won’t be with a whimper.
Trainees from "major role players" in the industry set to learn about nuclear power plant engineering, procurement, maintenance and other subjects
Russian energy company Rosatom has made it clear they should be the sole supplier of everything nuclear in South Africa.
South Africa has agreed to a strategic partnership with Russia, worth $50-billion, to significantly increase its nuclear power generation capacity.
Jacob Zuma’s plan for a fleet of nuclear power stations has the potential to impose a burden under which the South African economy could buckle.
South African authorities will have to address two critical issues as the country faces signing for its new nuclear procurement megaplan.
It is likely that SA’s much-awaited second nuclear power station will be put out to tender after September this year, the <i>M&G</i> has learned.
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/ 24 February 2009
Algeria aims to build its first commercial nuclear power station around 2020, Energy and Mines Minister Chakib Khelil said on Tuesday.