LETTER: How can we think about more nuclear power when state cannot manage what we have?
State must first demonstrate its ability to cope with the existing radioactive waste by building a depository
Bernard Benson falsely claims that “nuclear energy is clean and efficient ... small modular reactors are safe and clean” (“Energy lessons to be learnt (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/letters/2021-02-28-letter-energy-lessons-to-be-learnt/),” February 28.)
All of the CSIR modelling has concluded that nuclear power is never the most cost-effective option for SA. And, far from being “clean”, Koeberg now stores a total of 1,000 tonnes of high-level radioactive waste within Cape Town's municipal boundaries, due to Eskom and the government's failure for 40 years to build a high-level radioactive waste depositary...
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