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Refurbished Koeberg Unit 1 faces one last test on Saturday Eskom said that Unit 1 at its Koeberg Nuclear Power Station will be undergoing its final test following the installation of new steam generators over the past year. The full load rejection test to be carried out on Saturday, 30...

Bad news for Koeberg Power Station The National Nuclear Regulator (NNR) has confirmed that Koeberg Power Station's two generating units will seldom run together for the foreseeable future. During a media briefing to update the public on the power station's Long-Term Operation (LTO) licence...

South Africa's first mini reactor could be online by 2026 — Report The Western Cape could get South Africa's first mini nuclear reactor as early as 2026, Sunday news Rapport reports. The publication has received exclusive information about the project from South African venture capitalist...

Eskom assures Koeberg nuclear power station is on track Eskom has announced that mechanical work for replacing steam generators on unit 1 of the Koeberg nuclear power station was completed on Friday, 28 July 2023. “This is the most significant part of the scope which involved complex...

Koeberg unit quits again — Here is a timeline of its many troubles in 2022 Unit 2 at Eskom's Koeberg nuclear power station near Cape Town suffered another setback this past weekend, wiping a potential 920MW generating capacity off the grid. The power utility says the unit tripped from full...

Good news for load-shedding — Koeberg to come back online Eskom plans to start synchronising one of the Koeberg nuclear power station's generating units to the grid on Friday evening, more than six times after it first went offline. The utility has suffered numerous delays in bringing back the...

Eskom delays Koeberg unit return-to-service Eskom has revealed that Koeberg's Unit 2 generator will only return to service by the end of July 2022, after previously confirming that it was set for the middle of the month. The power utility's chief operating officer Jan Oberholzer attributed the...

Good news about load-shedding — Koeberg nuclear power station unit to come online soon Eskom's Koeberg power station could soon add 920MW to the grid as its Unit 2 generator's start-up is now in progress, the power utility has told MyBroadband. However, the unit would not be added to the grid...

A glimmer of hope for power cuts in South Africa — Eskom bringing back big units Eskom says it plans to bring 2,500MW of generation capacity back onto the power grid before the end of June 2022, radically reducing the strain on the system and the risk of load-shedding during the winter. During...

Unbelievable incompetence at Koeberg nuclear power station Koeberg has disgraced itself. It has just shown almost unbelievable incompetence as if its senior management does not know what it is doing. I must emphasise that this blunder presents no danger either to Koeberg workers or to the...

Eskom's big Koeberg nuclear power plant problem Eskom had not completed the containment building needed to store radioactive parts before shutting down Koeberg's Unit 2 for scheduled maintenance. Energy expert and EE Business Intelligence managing director Chris Yelland told Talk 702 that the...

Eskom delays Koeberg repairs to reduce load-shedding this winter Eskom announced on Friday that it has delayed scheduled repairs to Koeberg’s steam generators after its contractor warned that the maintenance would take longer than estimated. “Unit 2 of the Koeberg Nuclear Power Station was...

National Nuclear Regulator harmed by anti-nuclear board member — Mantashe South African Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe has asked Peter Becker, the community representative on the board of the National Nuclear Regulator, for written reasons as to why he shouldn’t be fired. Mantashe, who has...

Exodus of engineers at Eskom Eskom engineers and technical staff are leaving the power utility because of affirmative action, a lack of career prospects, cadre deployment, nepotism, and a toxic work environment. This is according to an article in Rapport, which highlighted problems in...

Eskom reveals worst-case for load-shedding Eskom has provided its outlook for load-shedding over the next seven months, revealing a worst-case scenario with 90 days of load-shedding. The state-owned power utility showed the forecast during its latest State of the System briefing, in which the...

Warnings over Koeberg after Mantashe boots nuclear regulator board member Energy minister Gwede Mantashe has suspended civil society's representative from the board of South Africa's National Nuclear Regulator (NNR). The suspension of Koeberg Alert Alliance's (KAA's) Peter Becker comes during...

Nuclear power station life-extension project running late — even before it starts The installation of six new steam generators at Eskom’s Koeberg nuclear power station, which was scheduled to begin on 5 January 2022, appears to be running late even before it started. Koeberg power station...

Koeberg nuclear power station life extension poses serious risks Preparations are underway for the replacement of the six steam generators at Eskom’s 1840 MW Koeberg nuclear power station, in what South Africa’s national electricity utility says is the most complex project ever undertaken at...

Prepare for worst load-shedding yet Energy expert Chris Yelland said the prospects for Eskom's energy availability factor look bleak, and that South Africans should brace for even worse load-shedding in 2022.

Stop secrecy on nuclear so South Africa doesn't become Chernobyl — Outa Outa has called for more transparency in South Africa's nuclear energy industry to help keep the country safe from nuclear disasters such as those at Chernobyl and Fukushima. The civil action group states that South...