South Africa: Nuclear-1 a certainty?

26 May, 2009 in South Africa

source: IOL
May 25 2009 at 07:49PM
By Melanie Gosling

Eskom appears to be kickstarting its massive nuclear energy plans again.

The utility, which halted its nuclear bidding programme for Nuclear-1 in December last year, has now revised its application to the environmental authorities, asking to be allowed to combine authorisations to develop Nuclear-1, Nuclear-2 and Nuclear-3 power stations at all three coastal sites earmarked for the nuclear programme.

The three sites are Bantamsklip near Pearly Beach in the Overstrand, Thyspunt near Oyster Bay in the Eastern Cape and the Koeberg site of Dynefontein 30km north of Cape Town. At the start of the environmental impact assessment (EIA) the three places were to be assessed as alternative sites for the proposed Nuclear-1.

Now, because of amendments to the environmental legislation which are in the pipeline, Eskom has applied to [continue reading]

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