In Capetown, South Africa, the South African government is strongly committed to nuclear energy, and the state utility, Eskom, plans to complete its version of the German-designed Pebble Bed Modular Reactor, the PBMR, in 2011. Once this 165-MW prototype is online, South Africa intends to mass produce this versatile reactor for domestic consumption and export to developing nations—up to 30 plants. South Africa, which has a looming energy shortage, is also considering adding another conventional nuclear plant to its electricity grid. Elsewhere in Africa, initial steps have been thwarted. In 1964 then-President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana moved to build a nuclear plant in his nation, but this project was aborted when he was overthrown in a coup d’état in 1966.