SA nuke deal with China not too transparent

The Department of Energy has announced it is sending 50 trainees from SA to China for a four-month stint in nuclear power plant operations. In March Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa told Parliament that it was necessary to “trust” President Jacob Zuma’s promise that all nuclear deals would be open and transparent.

Russian nuclear contract a false alarm; raises frenzied warning for corruption watch in SA

By Peter Fabricius Media reports this week that South African Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson and Sergey Kirienko, Director-General of Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation, Rosatom, had signed a US$50 billion deal for Rosatom to build up to eight nuclear power stations – and a research reactor – in South Africa caused something of a, well, atomic … Read more

SA nuclear power deal with Russia in early stages

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s nuclear cooperation deal signed this week with Russia is part of a tender process that will involve other competing countries and is not a contract to build power plants, government officials said on Tuesday. The Russian atomic agency Rosatom issued a statement on Monday saying that it had signed a … Read more