%A Hoosen, Sulaiman %D 2017 %T The Nuclear Frontier: An Environmentally Resilient Approach to Nuclear Energy Law Reform in South Africa %K %X The rapid economic and social growth in South Africa has placed an immense encumbrance on the production of electricity over the past decade. [1]   South Africa remains an energy intensive country on the African continent [2] with a significant electricity gap that would need to be generated by the year 2020. [3] The current electricity demand accelerates the overall growth in energy supply facilitated by the South African Department of Energy and today the country experiences continuous load shedding, resulting in a need for different energy sources to power urban development. [4]   [1] W du Plessis ‘Energy efficiency and the law: A Multidisciplinary Approach’ (2015) 11 SAJS 8. [2] Department of Energy of the Republic of South Africa ‘What you need to know about Coal Electricity News’ available at http://www.energy.gov.za/information/documents/news/ec0015/pdf , accessed on 20 March 2015. [3] Ibid. [4] du Plessis op cit note 1 at 14. %U https://inkundlajournal.org/index.php/inkundla/article/view/40 %J Inkundla %0 Journal Article %8 2017-07-27