{"id":488,"date":"2024-07-18T13:11:44","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T13:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redboxnearme.com\/?p=488"},"modified":"2024-07-18T15:38:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T15:38:20","slug":"south-africa-extends-koeberg-unit-1s-lifespan-stands-firm-on-nuclear-expansion-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redboxnearme.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/18\/south-africa-extends-koeberg-unit-1s-lifespan-stands-firm-on-nuclear-expansion-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa Extends Koeberg Unit 1\u2019s Lifespan, Stands Firm on Nuclear Expansion Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South African state-owned utility Eskom has garnered the National Nuclear Regulator\u2019s (NNR\u2019s) approval to continue operating Unit 1 of the 1,860-MW Koeberg Nuclear Power Station for another 20 years, until [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/south-africa-extends-koeberg-unit-1s-lifespan-stands-firm-on-nuclear-expansion-plans\/\">South Africa Extends Koeberg Unit 1\u2019s Lifespan, Stands Firm on Nuclear Expansion Plans<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\">POWER Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"489\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"Koeberg remains South Africa\u2019s only nuclear power station. Its two pressurized water reactors produce a total capacity of 1,860MW, representing about 5% of electricity generated by state-owned utility Eskom. Construction of the Koeberg nuclear plant began in 1976, with Unit 1 synchronized to the grid on April 4, 1984, and Unit 2 on July 25, 1985. The plant is at Duynefontein, 27 kilometers north of Cape Town. Courtesy: Eskom\" data-src=\"https:\/\/redboxnearme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/fig5-koeberg-nuclear-reactor-eskom.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African state-owned utility Eskom has garnered the National Nuclear Regulator\u2019s (NNR\u2019s) approval to continue operating Unit 1 of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redboxnearme.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/18\/south-africa-extends-koeberg-unit-1s-lifespan-stands-firm-on-nuclear-expansion-plans\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">South Africa Extends Koeberg Unit 1\u2019s Lifespan, Stands Firm on Nuclear Expansion Plans<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redboxnearme.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redboxnearme.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redboxnearme.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redboxnearme.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redboxnearme.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/redboxnearme.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/redboxnearme.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redboxnearme.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redboxnearme.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redboxnearme.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redboxnearme.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}