By Ron Derby
Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) — Eskom Holdings Ltd., South Africa’s state-owned power utility, will select the winner of a tender for the construction of a 120 billion-rand ($11.7 billion) nuclear power plant in the country by January.
“We will announce the outcome of the commercial process before the end of the year,” Fani Zulu, a [...]
By Subramaniam Sharma
Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) — India needs to tap opportunities to get nuclear reactors and secure uranium supplies as a global financial crisis may slow orders from other countries.
“The current global financial crisis may very well be a blessing in disguise,” Shyam Saran, special envoy to the prime minister on the nuclear deal, [...]
By Bonnie Pfister
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
The development of nuclear power plants in the United States will chug forward regardless of who becomes the next president, industry experts say.
Republican presidential hopeful John McCain has called for the construction of 45 plants by 2030. Democrat Barack Obama concedes that nuclear power has a role to play in cleaner-burning energy production [...]
