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were renovated. The substance has long been banned throughout the EU in baby bottles and receipt paper. A ban on food packaging is currently being discussed at EU level. * South Africa | Eskom | ANC | WDR Story Series: Super election year 2024 South Africa: Elections in a "Failed State" A dilapidated energy infrastructure in South Africa leads to constant power outages and the decline of entire...
THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023
TRISO spherical fuel elements. It should only take five years to complete. In the management team, not only a former manager of the state energy company Eskom, Francois Mellett, stands out, but above all the boss of the company Dr. Kelvin Kemm. He was a scientist at the state-owned Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa (Nesca),...
given, which the study includes the Federal Chancellor, the Federal Ministers and their State Secretaries. On average, this works out to about one meeting per day... * South Africa | Eskom | Large power plants South Africa has declared a national emergency due to electricity blackouts. The government recently declared a national emergency in South Africa. Been taking for many years...
THTR Newsletter No. 144 November 2014
Glasses! Top of page It has only been four years since South Africa's nuclear dreams were shattered. For several decades, the parastatal power company Eskom and the South African government tried to build a Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR). The preparations for the construction of the Jülich Research Center (FZJ) and the German nuclear industry...
THTR Newsletter No. 133 October 2010
from Germany, the Association of Large Power Plant Operators (VGB) planned a specialist conference on electricity generation and power plants in South Africa. At the opening of the conference organized by the state-owned company ESKOM in Johannisburg on November 9, 1987, a lecture by the chairman of the board of VEW and the deputy chairman of the VGB, Klaus Knizia, was planned. (...) The Germans...
HTR Research - The published and true costs
485). -- As far as the PBMR in South Africa is concerned, there can hardly be any talk of "long-term prospects" (original sound atw in July 2010!). The currently last “framework agreement ED 120” between ESKOM and TÜV Nord to work for the PBMR was concluded in December 2008. The end came just 3 weeks later and the spherical fuel elements produced in South Africa were...
THTR Circular No. 130 March 2010
South Africa experienced massive deinstrialization" (2). Bankrupt reactor in a bankrupt state. Loan guarantees are the most popular form of cost limitation for nuclear power plant operators. ESKOM's credit rating was rated lower on a certain scale in August 2008 (3). ESKOM's budget looked up to As of 2017, $34 billion for the construction of new coal and nuclear power plants...
THTR Circular No. 126 April 09
will be available for the period after 2010. By this time, South Africa will have invested $980 million into the PBMR project! The state-owned power company Eskom had originally planned to order a total of 24 modules of the new reactor type and wanted to export additional reactors to other countries. Last year PBMR and...
THTR Circular No. 125 February 09
- Here is the long version of the report: "South Africa has initially given up on the planned expansion of its nuclear power plants due to increased capital costs. The state energy company Eskom announced on Friday that the planned construction of a second pressurized water reactor had been canceled. The French Areva was in the final selection -Group and the US manufacturer Westinghouse. The...
THTR Newsletter No. 123 October 08
in Koeberg near Cape Town and the costs for the THTR (called PBMR) planned directly next to it have already increased tenfold in 10 years. In 1999, the state-owned energy supply company ESKOM was privatized and increased electricity prices by up to 300 percent. Many households in the poor areas found themselves in financial difficulties. ESKOM provided up to 20.000 households per month...
THTR Newsletter No. 111 March 07
Nuclear program knowledge' taken from Earthlife Africa from 2002. Earthlife Africa is one organization in the impressively long list of national opponents of the project. They write: "ESKOM, the South African energy company, is not a reliable partner. At the beginning of 2006, the Cape region was plagued by severe power outages and narrowly escaped a major reactor accident in...
Berlin. * THTR Newsletter No. 84, August 2003 VEW in the 80s: Nuclear cooperation with South Africa's racist regime and advertising for THTR construction. "The importance of the state-owned energy company ESKOM for South Africa's apartheid system". This is the official report of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, written by Gottfried Wellmer (very insightful!). Questions...
THTR Circular No. 79 January 03
The high-temperature reactor developed has passed its endurance test in South Africa. The future operator, the South African state electricity company Eskom, reported this on November 29th. It has been proven that the model of the reactor can be started up and works at full load. According to its own statements, the Research Center Jülich has made a major contribution to reactor safety...
THTR Circular No. 80 February 03
There are projects involving high-temperature reactor technology. Herrmanns: The Jülich Research Center confirms its collaboration with the South African electricity supply company ESKOM. However, it is all about safety-related issues, emphasizes the chairman of the Jülich Research Center, Professor Joachim Treusch: "We supply software and try...
THTR Newsletter No. 81 March 03
Since a large number of companies in the USA, Japan or Europe are eligible as technologically cooperating partners, your request for a list of current partners could only be fulfilled by the company ESKOM itself. The Ministry of Science and Research does not have its own information. The safety analyzes in question correspond to the statutory mandate of the...
from the Research Center Jülich are out of date. The relevant pages have now been removed or revised. According to the information available to me, the ESKOM PBMR is intended to be operated with low-enriched uranium - without the addition of thorium. This material is not capable of nuclear weapons. Furthermore, South Africa has become a member of the International...
THTR Circular No. 84 August 03
from Germany, the Association of Large Power Plant Operators (VGB) planned a specialist conference on electricity generation and power plants in South Africa. At the opening of the conference organized by the state-owned company ESKOM in Johannisburg on November 9, 1987, a lecture by the chairman of the board of VEW and the deputy chairman of the VGB, Klaus Knizia, was planned. The topic of nuclear energy was...
THTR Newsletter No. 85 September 03
successfully put into operation. This is the world's first multi-stage, closed-cycle gas turbine. The South African energy company ESKOM has been researching pebble bed reactors since 1993. In doing so, ESKOM is reviving a technology that has been known for around 40 years, but has hardly been further developed to date. ESKOM was able to partner with the Industrial Development Corporation...
THTR Circular No. 88 February 04
not yet answered, for which I ask for your indulgence. I would like to comment on the questions you have raised as follows: There is no cooperation between the Foreign Office and the South African energy company ESKOM. According to information from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, which is responsible for the Research Center Jülich (FZJ), there is rather an exclusively commercial...
THTR Newsletter No. 89 March 04
on an international level for new orders. It is no coincidence that last year a spokesman for Areva met with high-ranking representatives from the South African energy company ESKOM and the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry to make them an offer to build a nuclear power plant. During the last state visit by President...
