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SA gives thumbs-up to nuclear energy for the future

http://www.theherald.co.za/herald/news/n12_14082007.htm

Pretoria – It is anticipated that in 30 years nuclear energy will contribute significantly to South Africa‘s energy needs, the department of minerals and energy said yesterday.

Launching the draft nuclear energy policy and strategy, director-general Sandile Nogxina said South Africa‘s “abundant uranium” reserves meant nuclear energy was an important electricity supply option. The policy and strategy document sets out the government‘s plan to create a whole industry around nuclear energy.

This was why government would re-capitalise certain nuclear agencies and also finance the setting up of new ones, said the chief director of nuclear energy in the department, Tseliso Maqubela. In the years up to 2015, new nuclear power plants would be constructed. – Sapa