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Could mini nuclear stations plug South Africa's power gaps?

One company has designed a gas-cooled small modular reactor that it says can be installed within three years on a site smaller than a football field and safely produce enough power for a city.

A general view of Koeberg nuclear power station in Melkbosstrand, near Cape Town on January 22, 2023. AFP photos
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision

South African nuclear scientists want to build a new generation of mini nuclear reactors, both to plug holes in their own country's blackout-plagued grid and to build an

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