The minister of electricity and energy says science must trump politics and emotions ‘exploited’ by environmental lobbyists
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.South Africa will follow the science to develop nuclear power capacity as part of the country’s just transition to cleaner renewable energy, including wind, solar and hydropower, Electricity and Energy Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa said on Thursday.
Ramokgopa said the scientific community had a duty to dispel “these myths” regarding dangers of nuclear power. Ramokgopa said the government would announce its next steps regarding its nuclear energy plans “in the next week or so”, because some of the underlying assumptions, such as“If there are complexities, or the process of the 2500MW build programme is compromised, and on our own version, having studied the process objectively, we find that it is compromised, we have a duty to pull it back, to clean it so that you don’t conflate the science and the process.
“The point I want to make is that nuclear energy is part of the energy mix. Nuclear is part of the future. It’s indispensable to the attainment of energy sovereignty in this country. Science must trump emotions and politics.” The state-owned company is responsible for processing source material, including uranium enrichment and research and development in nuclear energy and radiation sciences, co-operating with institutions locally and internationally.
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