Necsa in the news
Necsa’s Radiochemistry group has successfully manufactured clinical grade (GMP compliant) F-18 labelled flouroethylcholine (a prostate cancer imaging agent) on behalf of NTP Radioisotopes (Pty) Ltd!
The study is in collaboration with Prof. Mike Sathekge of the Nuclear Medicine Department at the Steve Biko Academic Hospital, which is where the Phase I clinical trial will be carried out. Patients with prostate cancer will be administered the radiolabelled compound and will subsequently undergo a Positron Emission Tomography-Computerised Tomography (PET-CT) scan.
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NECSA’s dr Rob Adam takes his leave
The Chief Executive of the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa), Dr Rob Adam, will be leaving Necsa after being at the helm of the corporation for six productive years. He will be pursuing an opportunity in the private sector from February 2012.
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Govt nuke boss goes private
Rob Adams is going to a construction group that will bid for a massive government nuclear tender.
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Maatskappy omgord lendene vir kontrakte-stryd
Pretoria - Dr. Rob Adam, uitvoerende hoof van die Suid-Afrikaanse kernkragkorporasie (Necsa), annvaar op 1 Februarie diens by die konstruksiegroep Aveng.
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Necsa CEO steps down to pursue private sector position
Dr Rob Adam will step down as the CEO of the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa) after being at the helm of the corporation for six years.
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Peters questioned about nuclear stations
IT'S OFFICIAL - any decisions on possible new nuclear power stations will be made by a government-appointed committee and not by Parliament.
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Mobile mini-power plant is unveiled
Engineering team converts biomass into liquid fuel
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Stakeholders to discuss Tanzanian uranium mining
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania --- MININGREVIEW.COM --- 17 November 2011 - A wide range of stakeholders in the mining sector are expected to gather in the Tanzanian capital today to deliberate the development of uranium mining in Tanzania.
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Storage needed
SA will next year start the process to build a 9600MW nuclear fleet, which together with Koeberg’s current 1800MW capacity will result in 13,4% of the country’s electricity being supplied by nuclear power by 2030.
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Kennisgewing van 'n omgewingsimpakstudie vir die voorgestelde ontwikkeling van 'n doelgerigte isotoop produksie reaktor (DIPR) en geassosieerde infrakstrucktuur by Necsa, Pelindaba gelee op die kerkstraatwes verlenging, Brits distrik Noordwes provinsie.
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Nuclear build programme should be R400bn (01 November 2011)
The cost to build three nuclear power plants with two reactors each should be between R300 billion to R400 billion and not the R1-trillion as previously reported, says Rob Adam, CEO of the Nuclear Energy Corporation of SA (Necsa).
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Necsa refutes R1 trillion nuclear cost (01 November 2011)
Cape Town - The cost to build three nuclear power plants with two reactors each should be between R300bn and R400bn and not the R1 trillion reported, said Rob Adam, CEO of the Nuclear Energy Corporation of SA (Necsa) on Tuesday.
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Necsa to manufacture components (27 October 2011)
The South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa) through one of its divisions, Nuclear Technology Industrialisation (NTI) has annouced its recently acquired qualification as a component manufacturer....
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Company Announcement: Asme Iii Code For Necsa (19 October 2011)
The South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa) through one of its divisions, Nuclear Technology Industrialisation is announcing its recently acquired qualification as a component manufacturer, certified to manufacture power generation components according to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Code of Standards.
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The nuclear power plans that have survived Fukushima (30 September 2011)
SciDev.Net reporters from around the world tell us which countries are set on developing nuclear energy despite the Fukushima accident
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South Africa targets launching Gen III reactor tender in 2012 (22 September 2011)
South Africa’s Department of Energy is aiming to finalize a “nuclear energy implementation strategy” by the end of this year and “roll out the procurement process next year” for a Generation III reactor, according to Nuclear Energy
Corp. of South Africa CEO Rob Adam.
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National statement by H.E. Mr Xolisa Mabhonga (19 - 23 September 2011)
Resident representative to the IAEA head of South Africa Delegation during the occasion of the 55th session of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference.
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Medical suppliers left unpaid by Gauteng health department (15 September 2011)
A medical supplies company says it is owed more than R1-million by the Gauteng provincial government and does not know when it will be paid.
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Global trends and local possibilities
What are the real alternatives to coal? South Africa is a water-poor country and no significant hydro power can be generated within our borders.
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PELINDABA: Secret, apartheid-era technology for highly enriched uranium dismantled (01 September 2011)
Pelindaba and its uranium- enrichment facility at Valindaba were kept secret during the apartheid era because they were enriching uranium for warheads under the guise of fuel supply
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PELINDABA: One of few profitable parastatals (01 September 2011)
SA IS home to the world’s leading radioisotope production nuclear reactor — Safari-1 at Pelindaba in Gauteng — which last year generated medical isotope sales totalling R795
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Global trends and local possibilities
What are the real alternatives to coal? South Africa is a water-poor country and no significant hydro power can be generated within our borders.
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PELINDABA: Nuclear reactor is put to use for human good (01 September 2011)
The facility’s commercial cash cow is the leading medical isotope producer in the world, writes Sarah Wild
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US-origin HEU returned from South Africa (19 August 2011)
A shipment of highly-enriched uranium (HEU) from South Africa's Safari 1 research reactor has been returned to the USA. It is the latest milestone in the reactor's conversion to using low-enriched uranium (LEU) fuel.
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SA marks twentieth anniversary of move from nuclear weapons to nonproliferation (08 July 2011)
On July 10, 1991, South Africa signed the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, better known as the Non Proliferation Treaty and most usually referred to simply as the NPT. This marked the final step in South Africa’s transition from a nuclear weapons State to a country with a nuclear programme that was and is exclusively and verifiably devoted to peaceful ends.
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Kernkrag (27 June 2011)
Dr. Rob Adams, uitvoerende hoof van die Kernkragkorporasie van Suid-Afrika (Necsa), het Vrydag voor die portefeuljekomitee vir energie gesê om nie 'n kernprogram te hê nie, sal 'n fout wees.
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Swiss boost for vital SA drugs (23 June 2011)
Pharmaceutical trade deficit of R14,1bn may be reduced if Swiss pharmaceutical giant establishes manufacturing at former nuclear facility Pelindaba
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NECSA’S Disposes of Low Level Waste at Vaalputs (21 June 2011)
RELEASE: DISPOSING OF NECSA’S LOW LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE AT VAALPUTS
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North West nuclear waste taken to Vaalputs (15 June 2011)
Johannesburg - Low-level radioactive waste packages accumulated from the 1960s at the Nuclear Energy Corporation SA (Necsa) in the North West have been removed to a waste disposal site, the corporation said on Wednesday.
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Still no answers to 2007 incursion at Pelindaba (06 June 2011)
THREE-and-a-half years after the precinct of the nuclear reactor at Pelindaba near Pretoria was breached at "burglars", there appears to be no progress on finding out why the assault on the facility took place.
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SA not promising nuclear contract (07 June 2011)
Track record of involvement in SA nuclear capability has led to expectations that French company Areva could build new Eskom plant
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Nuclear could ease energy shortage, create jobs – Adam (01 June 2011)
Nuclear Industry Association of South Africa (Niasa) president Dr Rob Adam said on Wednesday that investment in nuclear power would not only ease South Africa’s energy shortage, but would also allow for significant job creation.
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'Bright future' for nuclear power (27 May 2011)
If thorium had been used instead of uranium as the fuel in Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant, there would have been no risk of a meltdown after the country's devastating earthquake and tsunami. And South Africa has 18 000 tonnes of the material, according to John Prior of the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation. A naturally occurring radioactive chemical element, thorium is found in abundance worldwide. It is significantly less radioactive than uranium and decomposes far more quickly. A handful of the material could power London for a week, yet its supporters claim that the development of its energy-generation potential has been very slow in South Africa. In fact, at present there are no commercial thorium generators in use anywhere in the world.
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Pelindaba not built on dolomitic aquifer complex subject to acid mine drainage (12 May 2011)
"Necsa is not built on domomitic aquifer complex," states a letter from Necsa which took four weeks to reach MadibengPulse. The statement of Necsa being built on a dolomitic aquifer was made by Ms. Dominique Gilbert during exchanges following the nuclear disaster at Fukushima in Japan.
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