Duynefontein is a proposed site for new nuclear power station. It is a coastal site next to and just north of
Koeberg Nuclear Power Station
Koeberg nuclear power station is a nuclear power station in South Africa. It is currently the only one on the entire African continent. It is located 30 km north of Cape Town, near Melkbosstrand on the west coast of South Africa. Koeberg ...
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The significance of this locale is that it has been identified as a possible future
nuclear reactor
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site by South African electricity utility
Eskom
Eskom Hld SOC Ltd or Eskom is a South African electricity public utility. It was established in 1923 as the Electricity Supply Commission (ESCOM) and was also known by its Afrikaans name Elektrisiteitsvoorsieningskommissie (EVKOM). Eskom repre ...
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The environmental impact assessments of 2009 have been revised and updated and public participation meetings held in Atlantic Beach Golf Club, Melkbosstrand on 12 October 2015 and Kenilworth Community Presbyterian Church, Kenilworth on 13 October 2015.
It is also a landing point for the
Meta
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In modern nomenclature, ''meta''- can also serve as a prefix meaning self-referential, as a field of study or ende ...
2Africa
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subsea cable.
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Duinefontein Duinefontein 1 and 2 are early prehistoric archaeological sites near Cape Town in South Africa
They have produced Acheulean stone tools and animal bones dating between 200,000 and 400,000 years ago. It was not a settlement site, but instead seems t ...
, archaeological sites
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Nuclear energy in South Africa
References
South African nuclear sites
Economy of the Western Cape
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