Modular or not, nuclear power would be too expensive for SA
The public will inevitably pay for the debt creating nuclear power plants would cost the country
20 June 2020 - 08:00
The department of mineral resources and energy’s request for information for modular nuclear plants attempts to manipulate the SA public into believing that a build-own-operate and transfer model, as well as modular nuclear construction, are less costly.
Incurring a debt is not something to rejoice about regardless of how many payments are deferred to the future. Nuclear vendors are profit-driven and SA will, whatever the ownership structure, have to “pay back the money”...
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