SA
business report: The South African government is close to
purchasing a new water pressurized nuclear power plant from
French engineering firm
Areva says Alec Erwin, South Africa's public enterprises
minister. The move is related to South Africa's increasing
energy demands and delays in building South Africa's own
gas bed modular reactor (PBMR)
prototype. The South African government has an ulterior
motive for buying a Areva reactor. The PBMR company has been
courting Areva to take a stake in the company since the
US-based Exelon company pulled out in 2002. Currently
Japanese-owned Westinghouse Electric Company is South Africa's
only international partner, with a 35 percent stake in the PBMR
project.
Related links:
Gas bed modular reactor (PBMR)
company
Areva
