We were just getting ready to pack up for the weekend when news came through from our brand new African office. Barely have they got up and running and power company ESKOM has seen the light, abandoning a plan to invest in two French nuclear reactors.

Here's some coverage from Bloomberg highlighting the trouble caused by the decision. Of course if they'd gone with wind power they could have been looking forward to their first clean power by now. It's much quicker to set up a windfarm than even license a nuclear plant.

Just because we've only just opened the office doesn't mean we haven't been to South Africa before. Our campaign visited the country a few months ago, trying to help the government see through Areva's dodgy sales pitch, and six years ago we carried out the action shown below. That's us, nothing if not persistent.

In a country suffering energy poverty and lacking in financial resources nuclear power makes even less sense than usual. Windfarms could deliver cheaper power in a fraction of the time it takes to build a nuclear power station, and South Africa is the perfect place to introduce concentrated solar power.