Russian South African Nuclear Cooperation, Posmotrim Опции

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http://www.gazeta.ru/news/lenta/2007/03/16/n_1046228.shtml?
DEPUTY PRESIDENT MLAMBO-NCGUKA TO HOST RUSSIAN COUNTERPART
Pretoria – South African Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka will host her Russian counterpart Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov on an official visit to South Africa from Saturday – Monday, 17-19 March 2007. In this regard, Prime Minister Fradkov will visit Cape Town and Pretoria.
Posmotrim ,chto predlozhat posle vizita Kirienko i Trutneva i obechanii Putina

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Bold state bid to put SA back on nuclear map
Hilary Joffe
Associate Editor

THE government yesterday launched its draft policy on nuclear energy,
which seeks to create a new industry around nuclear power generation
to take advantage of SA's rich uranium deposits, develop technology
and create tens of thousands of jobs.

The mineral and energy affairs department unveiled plans to promote
the recycling of spent nuclear fuel as well as to rebuild SA's uranium
enrichment capacity, which was originally developed for nuclear
weapons but was voluntarily dismantled before 1994. Now, enrichment
would be for peaceful purposes only, with the aim of producing nuclear
fuel for SA's own new nuclear reactors and for the international
market.

The plans are set out in a draft nuclear energy policy and strategy
that the department unveiled yesterday, after the cabinet approved it
for public comment last week.

The department hopes to finalise the policy before the end of this
year. It follows President Thabo Mbeki's commitment in his state of
the nation address in February to accelerate work that would pave the
way for SA to increase its reliance on nuclear and renewable energy.

The department's chief director for nuclear energy, Tseliso Maqubela,
said yesterday the nuclear policy aimed to ensure SA diversified its
energy sources away from coal, addressing security of supply and
global climate change concerns. "There is no way we can have a primary
energy source such as uranium which we don't use fully," he said.

Maqubela said it was envisaged that nuclear power would account for
more than 15% of SA's total power generation capacity by 2025- 30,
more than double the current 6%.

Eskom CE Jacob Maroga said last month the utility's aspiration was
that half of the 40000MW it planned to add to its generating capacity
over the next 20 years would come from nuclear, in line with its aim
of cutting its dependence on coal to less than 70% by 2025, from the
present 88%.

Eskom is due to detail plans for its new conventional nuclear power
stations in March . Maqubela said it was looking at 4000MW of nuclear
power in the first phase of the building programme and the figure
would be increased from there.

The government is also looking to the experimental pebble bed
technology to generate nuclear power in future years and has been
working to bring international partners into the Pebble Bed Modular
Reactor (PBMR) project. Department director-general Sandile Nogxina
said yesterday, however, the government would go ahead with the PBMR
even if it did not get international partners .

But it would look for foreign partners who could come in on building
the infrastructure for recycling spent fuel. SA does not have that
infrastructure . Nogxina said that in the long term, the government
wanted SA to be able to compete globally in the whole nuclear value
chain, including the recycling of uranium.

The draft policy document proposes to recapitalise the Nuclear Energy
Corporation of SA (Necsa, formerly the Atomic Energy Corporation) to
co-ordinate investment in nuclear research and development and
innovation. There will be a single national nuclear safety regulator,
in the National Nuclear Regulator. But the document also proposes the
creation of several new institutions, including a new national nuclear
security agency, a national radioactive waste management agency and a
national nuclear architectural capability. The policy makes Eskom the
only generator of nuclear power, though Maqubela said the door was not
closed for private sector participation, though this would have to be
in partnership with Eskom.

On the mining side, Maqubela said the government would look to provide
incentives to encourage the mining and beneficiation of uranium
locally.

Nogxina also said the cabinet's approval last week of the Energy
Master Plan did not imply that only Transnet could build a new fuel
pipeline from Durban to Gauteng. P rivate sector consortium IPayipi
has also applied to the National Energy Regulator to build the
pipeline. Transnet's application still had to go through the
regulatory process. The cabinet's endorsement in no way excluded
participation of the private sector, he said.
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