Outa outraged by Necsa chairman’s pronouncement on nuclear time frame
Nuclear Energy Corporation of SA (Necsa) chairman Kelvin Kemm recently told a conference in Moscow that Eskom’s proposed new nuclear power stations would be a done deal by end-2017, and Russia’s Rosatom would probably get the contract. "It is unfathomable where Kemm gets the right to make pronouncements on decisions that still need to happen and public engagements which still have to occur," Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) energy director Ted Blom said on Wednesday. "Alternatively, Kemm is telling us the decisions have already been made, which is the message the public has been whispering since 2013." The government’s plan to build nuclear power stations able to produce 9.6GW of electricity was sent back to start again when the Western Cape High Court on April 26 overturned two Department of Energy determinations on the need for nuclear power and its procurement, and three intergovernmental agreements — with Russia, South Korea and the US — due primarily to lack of public cons...
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