The nearly R1-billion budget is in addition to the multibillion-rand nuclear plans SA is considering rolling out as part of its electricity road map.
Local fisheries unions have agreed to allow the Fukushima plant to release uncontaminated groundwater from around the nuclear facility into the sea.
Workers at the front of Japan’s clean-up effort battle contamination, stress and alcohol abuse.
Valindaba could be one of SA’s biggest cash cows yet. But it’s difficult to discuss nuclear energy in a country that knows little about it.
Thirty months on from the Fukushima disaster, Japan is struggling to come up with a long-term energy policy.
Academic Anton Eberhard has come down hard on SA’s current electricity policy, particularly the country’s proposed nuclear construction ambitions.
South African authorities will have to address two critical issues as the country faces signing for its new nuclear procurement megaplan.
What happens when government plans to build a nuclear plant in your hometown? Lionel Faull went to the Eastern Cape to find out.
Investigations have suggested that Basileus Capital was already treading water before the death of Julian Williams.
Existing legislation does not address the legal, environmental and social ramifications of fracking, says David Fig.
French parastatal Areva appears to have tried to buy its way to the front of the queue to build nuclear power stations in SA – a miscalculation.
The last working reactor in Japan is to be switched off Saturday and has sparked a debate on whether Japan needs nuclear power.
Not even the experts can agree on the economics of South Africa’s nuclear ambitions. The M&G’s Lionel Faull explains it in simple terms.
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/ 9 December 2011
This form of energy offers not only a secure electricity supply but also benefits, writes Minister of Energy <b>Dipuo Peters</b>.
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/ 19 October 2011
Energy Minister Dipuo Peters has confirmed that a tender proposal for 9600 MW of nuclear power could be worth at least R1-trillion.
Government and the unions are being lobbied by an industry increasingly desperate to sell reactors, says <b>Rianne Teule</b>.
Government says it has not made a decision yet on the number of nuclear power stations to be built or which vendors would be used for such projects.
Planned steps to boost global nuclear safety after Japan’s Fukushima disaster will not lead to any major increase in costs for reactor operators.
The National Nuclear Regulator gave assurances last week that it was working to incorporate lessons learned from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear incident.
Germany has announced plans to become the first major industrialised power to shut down all its nuclear plants by 2022, after the disaster in Japan.
Renewable energy gets a greater share and nuclear gets slightly less, but still there are risks in the system.
Japan was on Wednesday weighing a series of creative solutions to its unfolding nuclear disaster.
Fears over Japan’s nuclear crisis triggered a poll debacle for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party in its German heartland and a Greens triumph.
Japanese military helicopters dumped water on an overheating nuclear plant on Thursday while the United States expressed growing alarm.
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/ 30 November 2010
Secretive North Korea detailed for the first time its expanded nuclear programme on Tuesday, saying it had thousands of working centrifuges.
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/ 29 October 2010
It looked like a pretty ordinary day on the water at the United States naval base in Norfolk, Virginia.
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/ 26 October 2010
Iran begun loading fuel into its first nuclear power plant on Tuesday, a last step to realising its stated goal of becoming a peaceful nuclear power.
South Korea will sign an agreement with South Africa in the coming week to design and build nuclear power plants in the country.
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/ 6 September 2010
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition government agreed to a two-tier extension of the lifespans of German nuclear power plants on Sunday.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran will hold off talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme until the end of August as a way to "discipline" the West.
Iran has barred two United Nations nuclear inspectors from entering the Islamic Republic, a senior official was quoted as saying on Monday.
The UN imposed a new slate of sanctions on Iran on Wednesday in an attempt to force it to comply with demands over its nuclear programme.