Zuma says nuclear could've solved load shedding | Fin24
The DA Public Enterprises spokesperson, Natasha Mazzone, said on Friday that a nuclear build would be an"impossibility" given the current state of the economy.
"Our country is in a much worse economic position that we were a few years ago, we simply cannot afford nuclear. Instead, we need to diversify our energy mix by bringing renewable energy to the grid," said Mazzone.'If we went for nuclear' “We are going to pay trillions of rand because of the problems of energy….but if we went for nuclear, we will be out of spending trillions for a shorter amount of time and we’ll make more trillions,” he told the newspaper.
South Africans has been experiencing rolling blackouts for the past week as Eskom grapples with a shortage of available capacity. According to Eskom, the shortages have been caused by a lack of diesel supplies, scheduled and unscheduled outages at generation units, and the devastating effect of a cyclone that hit Mozambique on transmission lines. "Now we are in deep [trouble], we are therefore increasing the debt of the country with no hope to bring it down. That is the problem,” said Zuma.
“Russia carried the biggest load in supporting us. So we cannot, when we are now free, forget about people who were our friends at the time of need,” Zuma told Business Day. While nuclear still forms part of SA's energy mix, there are currently no plans to move forward with procuring new nuclear-powered reactors.that South Africa could not afford new nuclear reactors.
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