. The Department of Energy should be required to act in a more transparent manner, providing adequate information to the public and Parliament as to its intentions and the decisions being taken regarding this proposed procurement; . That funds budgeted for large-scale energy procurement should be conditional on greater parliamentary oversight; . That there is a risk that South Africa will commit itself to order a large number of reactors that will impose huge additional costs on consumers. However, the more likely risk is that, as in 2008, the nuclear programme will prove impossible.