Chairperson, thank you for the question. One of the benefits of the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor, PBMR, has been that we, as government, were able to leverage the nuclear skills and capabilities that were in the country after apartheid. These people have been instrumental in building up the PBMR model, and have also been instrumental in building a new generation of nuclear engineers in the country.
For those who are interested, if you go to North West University, there is a training facility that was specifically designed and set up by these nuclear engineers of the past for nuclear engineers in the country. Every country in the world is going to have to face the possibility of going nuclear because of the clean energy requirements. We are very fortunate in this country that we have been able to shore up a considerable nuclear skills capability in this country, and I say to my colleague, most definitely, these people' skills and abilities will be retained in this country. We need them.
In terms of nuclear build, Eskom embarked on a nuclear procurement process the last 18 months or so. We did not then go ahead to procure, but in the process an enormous amount was learnt about the procurement of nuclear capability. In addition to that, there are the localisation components, and we will still be going further with regard to that. One of the issues that we do need to address is that, if you are going to build up any major advanced manufacturing capability, you have to make sure that there is sufficient procurement within a country to warrant the kind of investment in significantly advanced manufacturing capability. That is why the possibility of a fleet of nuclear reactors is more beneficial than just one simple nuclear reactor, because it gives us the ground basis for going forward.
Obviously, that nuclear engineering capability is then used to run the nuclear generators to go forward. May I also add that the Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa, Necsa, itself, is now the world's only producer and exporter of medical isotopes in the country, and we were able to do this because of our nuclear engineering capabilities. Thank you. [Applause.]