Nuclear Elec - tric, which regularly assesses the level of neutron damage at its stations by monitoring the condition of samples of construction materials placed in the reactor, decided to shut down the plant's two reactors to investigate what was happening more thoroughly.
In the case of South Africa, RES from PV and wind (circa RND 0.5 — 0.6 / kWh) is cheaper than
elec from coal stations (RND 0.8) and the
nuclear programme was cancelled — too expensive.