CANE - Coalition Against Nuclear Energy South Africa

The Editor
Cape Times

Dear Sir

Solly Moeng from DonValley Brand, Marketing and Communications, discusses the role of PR in the Nuclear Energy debate in today’s Cape Times (10 October 2007). He throws out millions and millions of questions, like some over-excited Uranium-235 nucleus.

In the interests of public mental health, I submit a quote from one of his more revealing web-spinning tales:

“As the country prepares to boost its electricity supply … key players - all mainly foreign nuclear giants - are quietly flexing their communications muscles to educate the public and, if need be, help deal with whatever…

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Dear Ed,

Andrew Kenny deserves a prize for the most contrived and specious piece of nuclear greenwashing (Cape Times 25/09/2007) yet published in the daily press. To say there has only been one nuclear accident “in which five or more people died”, and by implication that there was only one accident at Chernobyl, is to discount the hundreds of thousands of victims of the disaster.

In 2006 a Greenpeace report revealed that the full consequences of Chernobyl could top a quarter of a million cancer cases and nearly 100,000 fatal cancers. The report involved 52 respected scientists and challenged the…

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By: Irma Venter

Published: 6 Jul 07 - 0:00

Power utility Eskom’s nuclear ambitions may cost in the region of $45-billion or, at R7 to the dollar, R315-billion.

North West University Postgraduate School of Nuclear Science and Engineering director Professor Gideon Greyvenstein says Eskom is planning to increase its current generation capacity of 42 GW by 4% a year to 82 GW by 2015.

With 25% of the total generation capacity set to be supplied by nuclear power stations, this means 18 GW of new nuclear capacity will have to be built over the next 18 years at an estimated cost of $45-billion, or…

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By: Irma Venter

Published: 31 Aug 07 - 0:00

South Africa will require a new and much expanded generation of nuclear experts when electricity utility Eskom starts the roll-out of its nuclear programme.

Eskom CEO Jacob Maroga says 20 000 MW of the utility’s planned 40 000 MW of new generation capacity will be from nuclear sources.

South Africa currently has one nuclear plant for the purpose of generating electricity, in the form of Koeberg, in the Western Cape, which consists of two reactors with a generation capacity of about 900 MW each.

Pebble Bed modular Reactor (PBMR), the home-grown nuclear plant technology under…

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