What Jacob Zuma meant and why he was right about nuclear

Zuma’s comments that nuclear would have saved us from our electricity crisis refer to the programme of about a decade ago, which would have delivered its first power by 2018Former president Jacob Zuma’s recent comments that the nuclear build programme would have saved us from the current energy crisis need to be set in context.

Both nuclear vendors had the full support of SA’s local industry, which submitted and negotiated Eskom-compliant proposals. SA suppliers to the nuclear industry were operating at their peak and able to provide optimal support to the nuclear build programme. At an international benchmarked price of $5m per megawatt and local content of 40% for the first 10GW, the domestic spend would have been about R300bn over 15-20 years.

The requests for information that would have been submitted by the five nuclear vendor countries in 2016 would have shown the real costs, construction schedules and how it would have been funded. The R1-trillion price tag would have been shown for the propaganda it was. Facts would be in the open. The current draft Integrate Resource Plan 2018, which envisages replacing our existing baseload with renewables or cleaner coal technologies, large combined cycle gas turbines and nuclear, is not an overnight solution.

1. 10 GW in 10 years was always going to be impossible 2. The costs were unaffordable even back then 3. Both Westinghouse and Areva went bust in recent years.

Really? He was never right about anything!

10GW in 10 years....what non-sense. Coal (Medupi and Kusile) which is much simpler has taken us far longer. Local labour rates are not as productive as overseas - many issues why this would never have happened. Pity BD has to publish rubbish pedaling an individuals p agenda

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