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Article: Taking the nuclear option: the Egyptian government's decision to restart its nuclear power programme has highlighted the possibility of a renaissance for this most controversial of power sources. How important is nuclear in the African power mix? Neil Ford discusses.(Energy)
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- African Business
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- December 1, 2006
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Growing concern over the impact of global warming has prompted a reassessment of nuclear power's future in a number of Western countries and this trend now seems to be affecting Africa for the first time. In addition to Egypt's decision to restart its nuclear power programme, there has been some discussion of Morocco building a nuclear power reactor, while South African power company Eskom still hopes to develop a string of pebble bed reactors, so could nuclear have a place in the African generation mix of the future?
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At present, the African generation mix is broadly dominated by hydroelectric power ...