Nuclear secrets revealed
MPs have been informed the Department of Energy underplayed costs of SA's nuclear programme
The Department of Energy underplayed what it had been told the nuclear programme would cost, consultants’ reports distributed to MPs on Tuesday have revealed. The details of government planning regarding the nuclear new build programme, which has been championed by President Jacob Zuma, have been kept secret by the department despite several access to information applications by Business Day and other groups. While not all the documents were made accessible in their entirety the contents are hardly spectacular and discuss hypothetical models and vague financing options. The documents make nonsense of the argument used repeatedly by Department of Energy officials for the past three years that the reason they were kept secret was because they contained commercially sensitive information. The department also intentionally underplayed the cost of nuclear energy, choosing a ballpark number in its public engagements that was lower than was estimated by consultancy Ingerop. The Ingerop stu...
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