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South Africa denies that it has finalised a nuclear deal with Russia

South Africa says no Russia nuclear deal, Sky News,  Wednesday, 24 September 2014 South Africa’s government says it has not yet awarded Russia a deal worth as much as $US50 billion ($A54 billion) to develop eight nuclear reactors, saying the countries had merely signed a cooperation agreement.

Russia’s atomic energy agency on Monday announced it had won a lucrative contract to develop nuclear power in South Africa, prompting allegations that President Jacob Zuma’s government had dodged procurement rules.

Pretoria’s energy ministry insisted on Tuesday that the Russia deal ‘initiates’ the procurement phase of the project and that other countries would be given a chance to bid.

‘Similar agreements are foreseen with other vendor countries that have expressed an interest in supporting South Africa in this massive programme,’ the ministry said.

‘If chosen, all nuclear vendor countries have technologies of their choice that they would want to deploy,’ a statement said, mentioning a delegation will visit France shortly.

Following the Russian announcement, South Africa’s opposition Democratic Alliance called for parliament to investigate….. http://www.skynews.com.au/news/world/africa/2014/09/24/south-africa-says-no-russia-nuclear-deal.html#sthash.SGOQfEpx.dpuf– See more at: http://www.skynews.com.au/news/world/africa/2014/09/24/south-africa-says-no-russia-nuclear-deal.html#sthash.SGOQfEpx.dpuf

September 24, 2014 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general