Monday, February 19, 2007

French nukes 'circling Eskom'

Leading French nuclear companies are circling power utility Eskom, hoping to get in on the construction of the next conventional nuclear plant in the Western Cape, Business Report said on Tuesday.

Industry speculation is that Areva, the company that built South Africa's first and only plant at Koeberg, is prepared to take a stake in the development of the fourth-generation pebble bed modular reactor programme in exchange for the contract to build the country's second conventional nuclear plant.

Read more at FIN24.co.za

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