Policy options for the nuclear industry in South Africa

Abstract

Under successive nationalist governments, the nuclear industry in South Africa has received favoured access to state resources. Along with the synthetic liquid fuels sector, vast investments were made in developing local capacity to exploit indigenous fuels and to reduce reliance on fuel imports. However, South Africa never achieved full self-reliance in liquid or nuclear fuels, which, in part, continued to be imported at substantially lower prices than local production costs.