{"id":87718,"date":"2015-05-19T12:25:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T10:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=87718"},"modified":"2015-05-20T08:23:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T06:23:39","slug":"sas-r1-trillion-nuclear-power-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/87718\/sas-r1-trillion-nuclear-power-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"SA&#8217;s R1 trillion nuclear power plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa will have six new nuclear power plants by 2030, which will cost between R400 billion and R1 trillion to build, according to a report by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson told Parliament on 19 May that South Africa will start the nuclear build programme in 2015, in a bid to generate an additional 9,600MW of electricity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect to present the outcome of this procurement process to cabinet by year-end,\u201d said Joemat-Pettersson.<\/p>\n<p>She said the operation will be carried out in a fair and transparent manner.<\/p>\n<p>Joemat-Pettersson also said the country will also re-establish its nuclear fuel cycle industry, which would include developing uranium enrichment plants and nuclear fuel production sites.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on SA nuclear<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to South Africa refuses to let go of its nuclear explosives\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/83023\/south-africa-refuses-to-let-go-of-its-nuclear-explosives\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">South Africa refuses to let go of its nuclear explosives<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Energy minister taken to court over nuclear plans\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/80993\/energy-minister-taken-to-court-over-nuclear-plans\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Energy minister taken to court over nuclear plans<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to DA calls for transparency on R1 trillion nuclear deal\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/69465\/da-calls-for-transparency-on-r1-trillion-nuclear-deal\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">DA calls for transparency on R1 trillion nuclear deal<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa will move to build six new nuclear power plants by 2030, which could cost as much as R1 trillion to complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":83045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874,1],"tags":[26,8881,5884],"class_list":["post-87718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","category-trending","tag-headline","tag-nuclear","tag-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87720,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87718\/revisions\/87720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}