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Johannesburg - South Africa will get six new power stations worth R1.3-trillion in an effort to eradicate power cuts, the SABC reported on Thursday.

China, France and South Korea would help in the construction of the proposed new stations, the energy department's director general Nelisiwe Magubane said.

The power stations, which formed part of the government's new proposed energy plan, would use “different technology”.

“This project has actually not yielded the required results... We need them to re-look at the whole research project. But in the meantime we are still going to need additional power plants and we are going to use what we call conventional nuclear power as we use it in Koeberg, in Cape Town,” she told the broadcaster. - Sapa
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http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/six-power-stations-planned-1.684521

I think compared to coal fired stations nuclear is the way to go....but then I watched a docie last night on Mnet Mzanzi about South Africas nuclear past and about proposed new power stations and the risks etc. One guy said that there is only about 40 years reserves of uranium left and it takes about 20 years just to get a power station up and running so its not really worth it. But then I remembered a thread somewhere on here about thorium and how it is abundant and safer than uranium. This fuel source was not even mentioned in the program....so I started thinking....everyone that is against nuclear power always say that the people aint properly informed...but it seems like they dont inform and give all the information either!!!!!!

Anyway......If it is done properly etc, then I guess this can only be a good thing. Not so? Hopefully our government and Eskom will have the foresight to make sure our new plants is compatible with this Thorium fuel source.
 
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