Tunisia’s US$28.7 billion economy is powered totally by fossil-based power plants that produce electricity equivalent to 8.5 metric tons of oil. To gain energy security and reduce carbon emission, in 2005 the Ministry of Energy signed an agreement with France’s Areva, to construct a 600 MW nuclear reactor and it will cost US$I .14 billion.
Via [All Africa]
The alternative nuclear energy was already discussed in the eighties, when the government was looking to provide extra energy to create a canal between Chott Ejjrid and gulf of Gabes that didn’t to anything under an outside pressure, the project was left but its ashes seems to be revived within the new wonders of the extra growing expensive energy costs.

Via [Tunisia Oil and Gas News]