Despite Eskom’s claims that the refurbishment of Koeberg will cost R20bn, the total engineering costs are likely to be R67bn, and the additional load shedding resulting from the extended refurbishment outages will cost the economy R209bn.
After appointing Peter Becker to the Board of the National Nuclear Regulator (NNR) in June 2021, Minister Mantashe fired him in February 2022. Becker has launched an application in the High Court to have this decision reviewed. If successful, it would mean that he would return to his position on the NNR Board.