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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Sergey Donskoy was speaking after talks in Pretoria with Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Maite Nkoana Mashebane.

Russia’s in a three-way race with China and France to sell South Africa a nuclear power station.

Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Sergey Donskoy says he’s 100% sure about the superiority and capability of Russian technology that’s  been proved at international forums by experts at all levels.

Donskoy says, speaking through an interpreter….

He says this includes skills development.

If South Africa buys the Russian plant it will be getting the most secure technologic solution that will increase its power generation capacity.

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