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Earthlife Africa Protest outside the Eskom buildings in Johannesburg, SA

Excerpted from Greenpeace and Earthlife Africa’s comments on the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the Eskom Nuclear Power Station: “As regards comments in the Economic Impact Assessment on the Russian nuclear accident at Chernobyl and its relevance to the assessment of the safety of nuclear power, the report leaves out a highly relevant piece of information. It states in regard to the case of Chernobyl “given the technological and safety differences between the Soviet and Western (French and US) systems , the likelihood of a Chernobyl – type incident occurring at Nuclear 1 is negligible.” It fails to mention the fact that SA has entered in to a strategic partnership agreement with the Russian Federation for the procurement of a fleet of nuclear reactors, and is therefore very likely to procure nuclear power from Russia.” Read the entire document here:…