Eskom's top nuclear chief, Riedewaan Bakardien leaves behind big shoes to fill as he announces his resignation and emigration to a nuclear power producer in Canada. Here's the story:
After 27 years of service, Eskom’s acting Chief Nuclear Officer, Riedewaan Bakadien, has announced his resignation, effective on 31 July 2022 and will be emigrating to serve in an “executive position” at a Canadian nuclear power producer.reports, the embattled power utility revealed on monday that Barkadien had informed Eskom of his resignation earlier this year and is now nearing the end of the notice period specified in his contract.
His role as Chief Nuclear Officer will be filled by Keith Featherstone, a long-standing nuclear executive with over 30 years of experience. Having previously served a management role at the Koeberg nuclear power station, hIn another change to the power utility’s workforce, current acting General Manager, Nomawetu Mtwebana will be joining the World Association of Nuclear Operators in Atlanta, for the next year as a reverse loanee.
Mtwebana will be departing shortly after the completion of the current outage of Unit 2 in July on a learning excursion to take up a position of “peer reviewer” with WANO in Atlanta in the US.In her stead, long-standing Senior Manager, Mahesh Valaitham,will be taking on Mtwebane’s role as Koeberg’s General Manager in an acting capacity. He too holds over 27 years of nuclear plant experience
Chief Operating Officer, Jan Oberholzer says: “I wish to assure the people of South Africa and fellow Guardians at Eskom that the organisation has access to sufficiently experienced and competent executive team to continue ensuring a safe and smooth operation at Africa’s only nuclear power station,”, South Africans have been forced to endure through 73 days on and off of Eskom’s sustained bombardment of loadshedding since the beginning of the year, and while the utility says it intends to lift...
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