As I indicated in the second part to my question, there is a government task team whose task is specifically to work on the framework for the procurement of a fleet of nuclear reactors. So we are in the process of doing that procurement on the pebble bed, which are smaller nuclear reactors that are much more flexible. It's a very different thing to the high-powered third-generation nuclear power reactors that we've been looking at. Yes, government is committed to that. We have to, in terms of our base load, invest in nuclear energy. So we will be going forward.
In addition to that, government has to look at its energy mix. It is not only nuclear; it is sustainable energy as well. We are building Kusile and Medupi Power Stations, but we all know that we cannot just be coal-reliant. We have to look at a complete range of energy.
Whether the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor, PBMR, will ever be built, the Chinese are engaged in the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor industry. They are going full-steam ahead and they will use it to supplement it as most people would. For us, we are facing major fiscal constraints at the moment. That does not mean that we will shut down the PBMR at all, but it does mean that we cannot go ahead at the pace that we would have wanted to on the matter.
We have been submitting and are engaged with the Americans' programme of new generation nuclear power, and have been engaged with some of the testing of the facilities for the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor. You would have seen that we are also engaged with the Russians. They are going to test some of the things that we have been doing.
We, as South Africa, are still on the cutting edge of that nuclear technology, but the pebble bed is not going to be the primary base of our nuclear buy. Our primary base pebble bed is very good for heat process work, not just for the generation of electricity. Ours would be looking at second to third-generation nuclear generation. Thank you.