Eskom has welcomed a decision by the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) granting it permission to proceed with the nuclear installation at Duynefontein in the Western Cape, adjacent to the existing Koeberg power station.
Eskom chief nuclear officer, Dave Nicholls, said: “We welcome the authorisation by the DEA on the Final Environmental Impact Report (F-EIR) for the Nuclear-1 Power Station and associated infrastructure, and consider this an important milestone in the development process of South Africa’s nuclear programme. While we worked on Thyspunt being the preferred site, we have always considered both sites equally capable of hosting a nuclear power plant. To this end, we progressed the Nuclear Installation Site Licence (NISL) to the National Nuclear Regulator (NNR) for both sites.”
