Nuclear fuel agreement between US and SA expired on December 4. That resulted in Westinghouse Electric losing its licence from US Nuclear Regulatory Commission to export fuel-assembly components to Eskom’s Koeberg plant.
Wind and solar energy cannot supply sufficient capacity to replace grid electricity but nuclear power has proved itself to be the safest and cleanest energy source we know.
If the private sector got involved – who knows? South Africans will clutch to any straw at this point for solutions to the energy crisis.
South Africa’s only nuclear power plant, Koeberg, has frequently been in the news in 2022, all for the wrong reasons.
There is a lot in this interview to absorb and chew over, not least Kemm’s view that it makes sense to dust off SA’s scrapped PBMR programme.
Koeberg has disgraced itself. It has just shown almost unbelievable incompetence, as if its senior management does not know what it is doing.
The ANC has ruined Eskom with corruption, racial engineering, incompetence and mad policies. It failed to build power stations and so we ran out of electricity in 2007.
McDaid joined BizNews to discuss Eskom wanting to extend the lifespan of Koeberg, a decision which the organisation is calling into question.
Who will pay for the funeral when Koeberg reaches the end of life? Chris Yelland exposes Eskom’s lack of planning for nuclear energy decommissioning.
The Koeberg Alert Alliance and Safcei say they are concerned about the minister’s failure to appoint a representative of civil society to the NNR board.