{"id":8714,"date":"2012-03-09T02:59:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T00:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/s-africa-goes-big-on-nuclear-a-year-on-from-fukushima\/"},"modified":"2012-03-09T02:59:24","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T00:59:24","slug":"s-africa-goes-big-on-nuclear-a-year-on-from-fukushima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-goes-big-on-nuclear-a-year-on-from-fukushima\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa goes big on nuclear a year on from Fukushima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Japanese and S.Korean firms could keep lid on prices<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* One of the largest nuclear contracts after Fukushima<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* S.Africa looking to grow jobs, expand technology<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Agnieszka Flak  and Jon Herskovitz<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, March 8 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa will<br \/>\ncome to the rescue of a nuclear industry, still struggling for<br \/>\ncustomers a year after Japan&#8217;s Fukushima disaster, with a tender<br \/>\nfor one of the world&#8217;s biggest atomic power deals.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Firms from France, the United States, Japan, South Korea,<br \/>\nChina and Russia have been lining up for years for a chance to<br \/>\nwin the contract worth between 400 billion rand ($52.3 billion)<br \/>\nand a trillion rand($130.8 billion).<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Chances to build reactors have grown fewer after the<br \/>\nFukushima accident, with many developed states trying to wean<br \/>\nthemselves off nuclear.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has become close to a buyers market and not a sellers<br \/>\nmarket, which it was before Fukushima,&#8221; said H. Holger Rogner,<br \/>\nsection head of the International Atomic Energy Agency&#8217;s<br \/>\nplanning and economic studies section.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South African officials expect to open the bidding in the<br \/>\nnext few months for 9,600 megawatts of nuclear power &#8211; or about<br \/>\nthe normal output of six reactors. Africa&#8217;s largest economy is<br \/>\noperating on razor thin electricity margins and needs the power<br \/>\nto grow its energy-intensive mining sector and manufacturing.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Japanese and S.Korean firms could keep lid on prices * One of the largest nuclear contracts after Fukushima * S.Africa looking to grow jobs, expand technology By Agnieszka Flak and Jon Herskovitz JOHANNESBURG, March 8 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa will come to the rescue of a nuclear industry, still struggling for customers a year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-8714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}