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A South African nuclear company has entered a partnership which will help source financing for a new nuclear reactor.

Koya Capital has signed a partnership agreement to work with Stratek Global to secure financing and construction of a ZAR9 billion (USD480 million) first-of-a-kind reactor in South Africa.

A landmark agreement has been signed for a R9 billion innovative nuclear reactor in South Africa where It is expected to break ground.

As well as preparing to issue a Request for Proposals for 2500 MW of new nuclear "this calendar year", the Nuclear Energy Summit was told that South Africa is developing its Pebble Bed Modular Reactor technology and "deserves the opportunity to implement the complete nuclear fuel cycle for peaceful uses".

A Pretoria-based company has designed a gas-cooled small modular reactor that it says can be installed within three years on a site smaller than a football fiel

South African nuclear scientists want to build a new generation of mini nuclear reactors, both to plug holes in their own countrys blackout-plagued grid and to build an export industry for the future.

South African nuclear scientists want to build a new generation of mini nuclear reactors, both to plug holes in their own countrys blackout-plagued grid and to build an export industry for the future. One company has designed a gas-cooled small modular reactor that it says can be i ..

South African nuclear scientists want to build a new generation of mini nuclear reactors, both to plug holes in their own country's blackout-plagued grid and to build an export industry for the future.- Rolling blackouts - "I believe the future is not only around the corner, I believe the future has arrived," Kemm told AFP in an interview in his garden in the Pretoria suburbs.

The government has announced that the country is going ahead with the development of 2,500 MW of new nuclear power.

Nuclear physicist Dr Kelvin Kemm was so incensed with Kevin Mileham’s “political propaganda” on BizNews last week, he insisted on setting the record straight.