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The Voice of Russia 27 November 2013 "South Africa's NPP project is estimated at 40 billion dollars to 50 billion dollars. Eight power generating units with more than one GW of power capacity each are due to be built under the project. Rosatom has offered assurances that in South Africa it will use its latest, - "post-Fukushima" – nuclear reactor safety systems. "Rosatom boasts the latest nuclear power plant building technologies, just as several US and European corporations," the Energy Development Fund Director Sergei Pikin said. Russia and South Arica have already reached agreement to that end. Now the agreement should be declared legally valid. The contract is due to be signed on February 15th next year. Rosatom says it is prepared to co-fund the project. Also, Russia has the required resources to supply fuel for nuclear power plants to be built, says an analyst with the Veles Capital investment company Ayrat Khalikov. Read more: http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2013_11_27/Rosatom-suggests-building-NPP-in-South-Africa-7382/"

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