Leading bidders in South Africa’s long-awaited nuclear programme, Areva of France and Rosatom of Russia, were in the dark about the cost of the project, their representatives said yesterday. Areva managing director Yves Guenon and Rosatom regional vice-president Viktor Polikarpov told an energy conference in Johannesburg that, like most people in the country, they did not know the cost of the programme. Previous estimates have put the cost of the project as high as R1 trillion, making it the largest single procurement programme.
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