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China Becomes Latest Country to Sign South Africa Nuclear Accord Kevin Crowley, Bloomberg Businessweek, 7 November 2014 South Africa, the continent's second-largest economy and biggest power producer, signed a nuclear cooperation accord with China following similar agreements with Russia and France. The framework agreement, which is a precursor to procurement, was signed by South Africa Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson and her Chinese counterpart Wu Xinxiong, the Pretoria-based Department of Energy said today in an e-mailed statement. South Africa is planning agreements with other countries including Japan as it decides how best to procure as many as 9,600 megawatts of nuclear energy by 2030. The country, which through its state-owned utility has installed capacity of about 42,000 megawatts, is struggling to meet power demand and on Nov. 2 had rolling blackouts, a consequence of decades of underinvestment in generation. Companies that have expressed interest in building nuclear power plants in South Africa include France's Areva SA and Electricite de France SA, Westinghouse Electric Corp., a unit of Japan's Toshiba Corp., Russia's Rosatom Corp., China Guangdong Nuclear Power Holding Corp. and Korea Electric Power Corp. [email protected] From: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-11-07/china-becomes-latest-country-to- sign-south-africa-nuclear-accord -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
