Niasa reiterates importance of nuclear in SA energy mix
With the ongoing development of breeder technology and known reserves of uranium and thorium, nuclear fission would become a major source of energy in South Africa, the Nuclear Industry Association of South Africa (Niasa) said.
“It would be highly imprudent in the current energy situation to ignore any feasible source of electrical energy, least of all nuclear,” the organisation said in documentation distributed at the Nuclear Forum, a sideline event of the Africa Energy Indaba, on Thursday.
South Africa had already established a national nuclear policy in 2008, with the gazetting of the Nuclear Energy Policy, which committed the country to an “extensive” nuclear power generation programme.
“This process is still ongoing,” a representative from the Department of Energy (DoE) confirmed at the Nuclear Forum.
South Africa currently operates two 900 MW pressurised water reactors at the country’s only nuclear power station at Koeberg, north of Cape Town.
The DoE’s Integrated Resources Plan (IRP2010) sets out that the country’s energy mix would include a further 9 600 MW of nuclear generation by 2030.
“Twenty per cent of the nation’s electricity would then be generated by nuclear means.
“Moreover, growth will not stop in 2030,” Niasa stated.
It added that the potential and ability of nuclear power had been demonstrated and had become safer with each new generation of reactor developed.
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