Possible Loadshedding?

By: Sthulile Mdletshe

Power Utility Eskom has announced that it will shut down one of it nuclear power station , Koeberg for maintenance.

The plans have raised fears of more loadshedding as the national network will be under additional strain.

Meanwhile, the power station’s Chief Nuclear Officer Riedewaan Barkardien says the long outages are necessary as the Koeberg station has not been maintained for the past 38 years.

In the past, Eskom has reported Koeberg’s Unit 1 to have repeatedly tripped due to a fault on the electrical breaker to one of the primary coolant pumps.

Barkardien explains.

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