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The nuclear power plants with Russian-made units will have a combined capacity of 9.6 gigawatts
VIENNA, September 22. /ITAR-TASS/. Russia will supply eight nuclear power units to South Africa until 2023 under the agreement signed in Vienna on Monday.
These will be the first nuclear power plants using Russian technology in Africa, with a combined capacity of 9.6 gigawatts.
“Rosatom is ready to assist South Africa in creating a world-class industrial cluster from the initial stage of the nuclear fuel cycle to engineering and production of equipment,” Rosatom Head Sergei Kiriyenko said at the signing ceremony held on the sidelines of the 58th session of the U.N. General Assembly of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
He said this would allow Russia and South Africa to carry out joint projects in third countries in the future. The project will also create thousands of new jobs and generate local contracts worth up to $10 billion.
South African Energy Minister Tina Pettersson said her country was interested as never before in the development of peaceful uses of nuclear energy as the driver of economic growth in the country.
The new nuclear power plants in South Africa are to be commissioned in 2023. Kiriyenko earlier evaluated the project at$40 billion to $50 billion.
“On reactor costs about $5 billion. All conditions factored in, eight units will cost from $40 billion to $50 billion,” he said.
Russia is also ready to provide a low-interest loan for the project. Experts say that it will allow South Africa to build its own nuclear power industry, achieve 40%-60% localisation, create about 30,000 new jobs and bring in $16 billion in investment as well as $5 billion worth of budget revenue.
The South African government has determined three sites for building new nuclear power plants. The country is home to Africa’s only Koeberg nuclear power plant.
Mike E wrote:http://en.ria.ru/russia/20140929/193430499/Russia-Among-Leaders-in-Nuclear-Security-Technologies.html
- Not a surprise...
Viktor wrote:Mike E wrote:http://en.ria.ru/russia/20140929/193430499/Russia-Among-Leaders-in-Nuclear-Security-Technologies.html
- Not a surprise...
Another day goes by and another nuclear deal closed
Since I started to follow this development I could have not dreamed of such success - congrats to all Russian scientist
Russia, Kazakhstan sign binding deal to build nuclear plant
Ture, however, that is only one front of many when it comes to next-gen reactors. I expect the fest breeder design orb be successful for coming decades, but after that? - The two countries looking the most "forward" are India and China, with their MSR's.sepheronx wrote:they are ahead with their fast breeders.
Yeah right! LM is no where near that fast in R&D, just look at every project...KomissarBojanchev wrote:I read lockheed martin will create a usable fusion reactor in 2022. Can russia do it earlier?
KomissarBojanchev wrote:I read lockheed martin will create a usable fusion reactor in 2022. Can russia do it earlier?
Mike E wrote:Yeah right! LM is no where near that fast in R&D, just look at every project...KomissarBojanchev wrote:I read lockheed martin will create a usable fusion reactor in 2022. Can russia do it earlier?
On a more serious note, I doubt it... Even of they do, it will be a prototype Tokamak, which are terrible by fusion standards. Most scientists agree that we will have operational fusion by 2045-2050, till then, we need MSR's.
kvs wrote:Mike E wrote:Yeah right! LM is no where near that fast in R&D, just look at every project...KomissarBojanchev wrote:I read lockheed martin will create a usable fusion reactor in 2022. Can russia do it earlier?
On a more serious note, I doubt it... Even of they do, it will be a prototype Tokamak, which are terrible by fusion standards. Most scientists agree that we will have operational fusion by 2045-2050, till then, we need MSR's.
There is no clear leader in any of the fusion reactor concepts and anyone peddling a roadmap to success is a shyster.
Humans are trying to do fusion in a matter which nature does not do it. Nature uses gravitational compression.
Tokamaks actually try to operate at temperatures higher than the core temperature of the Sun (i.e. around 100
million Kelvin vs. 16 million Kelvin). The stars do not have to deal with show-stopping plasma instabilities.
Inertial confinement fusion also has a slew of stability problems. It is not at all clear that any of these concepts
are viable.
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