She was speaking after talks in Pretoria with Moscow’s Natural Resources and Environment Minister Sergey Donskoy.

Foreign affairs chief Maite Nkoana Mashebane says South Africa is looking  at nuclear energy as a safe and clean addition to the country’s power generation needs.

The process has been and will continue to be an open one.

As to past experience she says:

“Through the supply of highly enriched uranium to Koeberg, Russia has safely delivered on this and there has never been a problem,” she says.

Russian Natural Resources and Environment Minister Sergey Donskoy says the uranium supply is further evidence of his country’s reliability.

He believes $1 billion a year is a realistic for bilateral dealings between South Africa and Russia.

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