The Western Cape won’t be dependent on Koeberg much longer

The Western Cape will not be dependent on Koeberg for its power supply much longer. Minister of Public Enterprises Alec Erwin has told the Cape Town Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry that either construction of a cluster of Pebble Bed Modular Reactors would begin next year or a conventional nuclear reactor would be imported. The Cape Times quotes Erwin as saying the province should be, as he put it, cruising, by 2009 and 2010. He also criticised government and the private sector for being too conservative, as earlier investment in infrastructure would have allowed the country to avert its current electricity problems.